contest

The FIRST PERSON who can write us with the correct answer to the following art question will receive 2 free passes to the Inwood Theater or something nice for our out of town winners.

This painter studied with Andrew Wyeth, worked not only for the pulp magazines but every major slick mag from The Saturday Evening Post to Cosmopolitan, painted portraits of President Kennedy, and others, and was a first-rate pin-up artist in the 40's but NONE OF THAT MATTERS, because it was he who not only painted the dogs gambling but the POOL PLAYING DOG PICTURE, The Hustler, that just happens to be the best selling print in American history. Name him!

ANSWER TO LAST MONTHS QUESTION of what were the discoveries of each of these scientists that revolutionized at least one type of art, are: Leo Baekeland - plastic (records to computer casings); Wallace Carothers - synthetic fibers (fashion); Philo T. Farnsworth - TV picture tube, (TV); Chester Carlson - photocopier (ZINES!); Tim Berners-Lee - Internet. Our winner is: RYAN JOHNSON (Mesquite, Tx) CONGRATULATIONS!

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