Indian Arts And Crafts Show At West Texas Museum
The Plains and Pueblo Indian Arts and Crafts Show runs through August 22 at the West Texas Museum featuring Navajo rugs and blankets from Wallace B. Blankenship and Pace families, plus 24 Indian paintings from The Museum of New Mexico. The exhibit highlights rare Navajo textiles and discusses weaving, design, and the impact of modern markets on Navajo artisans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley B. Blankenship
Museum of New Mexico
West Texas Museum
Wallace B
Wesley B. Blankenships
Wallace B. Blankenship
Franciscan Fathers
Hannover Artists Works Purchased By Area Residents
Thirteen original paintings and prints by Hannover Germany artists were bought by South Plains collectors. Works from Volkshochschule Hannover exhibitions were acquired by Mrs. William A. Wilbanks and other local residents, including pieces by H Fischer Gaaden and Wegner students, Hofmann pupils, and German club supporters.
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Hannover Artists
Hannover
Germany
William A. Wilbanks
South Plains Art Guild
Volkshochschule Hannover
West Texas Museum
Texas Tech
South Plains
German College
Boyce M. Irwin
H. Fischer-Gaaden
Clifford Shook
Plainview
Dortstrabe
Erich Wegner
John C. Dowling
Zeitungskiosk
Wegner
Vicki Johnson
Fischer - Gaaden
M. E. West
Ted Alexander
Walter Hofmann
O. L. Peter
All America Play Center Planned On Broadway Venture
William Glover reports on a bold Broadway project to create an All America play center at Lincoln Square. The plan includes a permanent acting company, a training center for talent, and a cultural focus over commercial aims, backed by John D. Rockefeller III and a $7 million architectural cluster with a $3 million gift for a 1,200 seat theater.
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William Glover
New York
Broadway
Lincoln Square
Robert Whitehead
Lincoln Center For the Performing Arts
Whitehead
England
Old Vic
Comedie Francaise
John D. Rockefeller
West Texas Museum Show Exhibits Native Arts On Campus
On display at the West Texas Museum on the Texas Tech campus two current exhibitions feature Southwest Native crafts and history. Dr. David Vigness, history professor, examines the Pueblo and Plains Indian arts show with his family as Richard admires beaded leggings and Margaret models a Plains vest. A Two Grey Hill Navajo blanket from the Wesley B. Blankenship collection is in the background.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Texas Museum
Texas Tech
David Vigness
Tech
Southwest
Richard
Margaret
Wesley B. Blankenship
Ted
Poised 1958 Exhibition Honors Texas Artists at Laguna Gloria
Corpus Christi and Region 11 win the 1958 award for Poetess a stoneware sculpture by Charles Umlauf of the University of Texas. Fort Worth and Region 15 hold the piece, with permanent award planned in 1960. Four South Plains artists in Region 20 gain special recognition among 38 state artists.
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Corpus Christi
Region 11
Laguna Gloria
Austin
Soon Webb
William Lester
University of Texas
Charles Umlauf
Fort Worth
Region 15
Rod Parkinson
Lubbock
Mona &. Pierce
Musiac
Ruby N. Shook
Plainview
Vivia Turquette
Hazel Wiseman
Sudan
Art Collection Moves from Gulbenkian Paris Home to Lisbon
More than 1500 pieces from Calouste Gulbenkian’s Paris collection have arrived in Portugal. The works are stored pending transfer to the Gulbenkian Foundation palace in Lisbon.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Calouste Gulbenkian
Paris
Gulbenkian Foundation
Watercolors and Oils by German Artist on Display
The West Texas Museum Rotunda Gallery showcases fourteen watercolors and six oils by Mrs. Charlotte Toeplitz through August 22. Born in Silensia, she studied in Breslau, moved to the U.S. in 1939, and has works in Santa Fe and private collections in Lovington Hobbs Midland and Lubbock. Prices range from 15 to 100 dollars with sales info at the museum desk.
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Rotunda
West Texas Museum
Charlotte Toeplitz
South Plains Art Guild
School of Applied Arts
Academy of Art
Breslau
U.S
America
Y.W.C.A
New York
Wilmington
Del
Topeka
Kan
Lovington
Hobbs
Midland
Lubbock
Oklahoma City
Heiligkreuzsteinach
Holy Cross On
Stone Creek
Heidelberg
Germany
Museum of New Mexico
Dennis Ruth Cuts Shine Price To Ten Cents
In Elizabeth New Jersey 11 year old Dennis Ruth announces he will lower his shoe shine price from 15 cents to a dime to protest the President’s stamp price increases and related inflation. The move aims to curb price rises and show how ordinary workers can respond to economic pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth, N.J
UPI
Dennnis Ruth
Dennis
Tech professor leads German Kindergarten art lesson
Assistant professor Alexander of foreign languages at Tech guides students in a German Kindergarten class as they view a painting of a German bridge by Mrs. Charlotte Toeplitz. Toeplitz's works are exhibited in the Museum Rotunda with students Barbara Reed John Avinger Dina Doyle and Michael Devaney shown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander
Tech
Charlotte Toeplitz
Rotunda
Barbara Reed
John Avinger
Dina Doyle
Michael Devaney
Art Exhibit Under Way For Panhandle South Plains Fair
Plains artists prepare entries for the 1958 Panhandle South Plains Fair Art Exhibit opening September 29 in the Women's Building at Fair Park. Advanced division prizes total 100 for painting and 50 for sculpture and crafts. Entries close September 26 at 1 p.m. with judging by Les Haas of the University of New Mexico.
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Plains
Fair Park
Les Haas
University of New Mexico
Panhandle South Plains
San Angelo
Amarillo
Roswell
Ft. Worth
Lubbock
Mrs. On Lawrence
Lab
Films Previewed by League for Possible Use in Lubbock
Mrs James G Morris chairs the Junior League of Lubbock Community Arts committee which previews films for purchase. The league has bought two films and invites cultural groups to use them free. One is Dong Kingman a 15 minute color sound piece about a Chinese American artist. The other film War Dance was bought in spring 1956 for 125 dollars and is shown on museum tours for public use with no fee.
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James G. Morris
Junior League of Lubbock
Dong Kingman
iFilms
West Texas Audio»visual Services
Texas Tech
Junior League
Junice "Sue
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Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
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Highland Avenue
Hollywood Amphitheatre
Cliburn
Moscow
Charles Lindbergh
Ely
Rachmaninoff
Cinncinnati Symphony
Royal Fireworks
Handel
Dvorak
Sheridan
Taboo
Oscar Howe
Oklahoma
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West Coast
Gece Sheridan
All-America Play
W. C. Holden
Guild
Leon R. Upshaw
German Exchange Exhibition
Selers
James Boynton
Houston
Boynton
Ft. Worth Art Center
League
Gulbransen
Rodgers
Americas
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