Word: sculling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was never any question as to who should sculpt Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scull, Manhattan's leading pop art patrons. George Segal, of course-the man who has made his reputation by casting his models full size in plaster, then setting them in "environments" that range from a washbasin (for a nude washing her foot) to the whole front door of a brownstone. The only thing holding back Ethel Scull was her dislike of being slathered all over with wet plaster...
...abstract expressionism received its first definitive testing on the auction block. The creative heyday of the movement is over; the question was, how much of it survives in cash values Of 20 paintings, 13 belonged to Robert C. Scull a New York taxicab-fleet owner who has embraced pop art. His purpose m selling was to bankroll his new foundaion to support younger artists with-dealers. "Let the oldtimers pay for tomorrow," he said. They did. Top price -$37,000-was for Willem de Kooning's 1955 Police Gazette; Barnett Newman's Tundra, consisting of a red horizontal...
...prevent the painting from being sold piecemeal, Pop Art Collector Robert Scull bought F-111 for an extravagant $60,000. He will need a museum to show it. "I realize I bought a monster," said Scull, "but the painting makes us look at our culture. Behind our prosperity is the ominous F-111." Says Scull's wife Ethel of her husband: "It's great, but I think...
...upper gallery of the Cow Palace, Maryland Republican David Scull, a candidate for Congress in the November elections, sat brooding as Barry Goldwater's juggernaut flattened the G.O.P.'s moderates. "Only a quarter of the country is Republican," scowled Scull, "and only a third of the Republicans are for Goldwater. That's about 8% of the country for him. I'm not going to leave the party, but I'm going to run an independent campaign...
...Scull's figures may be open to dispute, but his deep gloom over the Goldwater nomination was by no means an isolated phenomenon. For just as the Senator from Arizona evokes an almost fanatic devotion among his followers, he stirs a feeling of horror among many who disagree with him. To them, he is the backward-looking leader of the new Luddites, enraged at the complexities of modern life and bent on smashing the machinery that has been painstakingly devised over the past 50 years to deal with them. "A group has taken control here," said Henry Cabot Lodge...