Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The vice consul's Irish setter was first up the gangway. Then fur-hatted Consul General Angus Ward loomed over the side of the U.S. freighter Lakeland Victory, at anchor off Taku Bar, a deep-water port downriver from Tientsin, China. He squinted cheerfully through his steel-rimmed spectacles...
At a presidential preview, Harry Truman had dropped in and sounded a happy blast on a 12th Century hunting horn. Last week, as Washington's National Gallery admitted ordinary visitors to its showing of the family treasures of Austria's Habsburgs, there were plenty of such rich and...
On the green canvas of Washington's Uline Arena, Gonzales got his lumps in a hurry. Big Jake polished him in 40 minutes, a new record for the tour. The odd part of it all was that Pancho's booming cannonball service was becoming steadily more accurate-and...
In his current exhibition of paintings and drawings at the Germanic Museum entitled "A Piece of My World," George Grosz has presented on canvas a realistic nightmare.
Technically, Grosz ranges widely. Some of his early works show the influence of the first Italian abstractionists; others, like his "The Horseman is Here Again" and "Christ in a Gas Mask," have much of the quality of Durer's woodcuts. Later watercolors, however, are pure reflections of his own creativeness...