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Suzanne Schweig Langsdorf Martyl BIOGRAPHY
1917/18 St. Louis, Missouri - 2013 Schaumburg, Illinois. Known for: Abstract western landscape, magazine cover illustration, murals, botanics.
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Martyl Langsdorf, Doomsday Clock Designer, Dies at 96. By WILLIAM YARDLEY. Published: April 10, 2013. Martyl Langsdorf's clock has yet to... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Martyl Langsdorf, Doomsday Clock Designer, Dies at 96. By WILLIAM YARDLEY. Published: April 10, 2013. Martyl Langsdorf's clock has yet to strike midnight. In 1953, with the United States and the Soviet Union testing hydrogen bombs and the cold... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Martyl Langsdorf, Doomsday Clock Designer, Dies at 96. By WILLIAM YARDLEY. Published: April 10, 2013. Martyl Langsdorf's clock has yet to strike midnight. In 1953, with the United States and the Soviet Union testing hydrogen bombs and the cold war increasingly frigid, that ominous minute hand of hers stood just two ticks from the symbolically catastrophic 12. By 1991, after the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, it retreated... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Martyl Langsdorf, Doomsday Clock Designer, Dies at 96. By WILLIAM YARDLEY. Published: April 10, 2013. Martyl Langsdorf's clock has yet to strike midnight. In 1953, with the United States and the Soviet Union testing hydrogen bombs and the cold war increasingly frigid, that ominous minute hand of hers stood just two ticks from the symbolically catastrophic 12. By 1991, after the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, it retreated to a relatively reassuring 11:43 p.m. But the Doomsday Clock, which Mrs. Langsdorf drew for the June 1947 cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as a way to evoke the potential devastation of nuclear weapons, did not stay in reverse. Before... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Martyl Langsdorf, Doomsday Clock Designer, Dies at 96. By WILLIAM YARDLEY. Published: April 10, 2013. Martyl Langsdorf's clock has yet to strike midnight. In 1953, with the United States and the Soviet Union testing hydrogen bombs and the cold war increasingly frigid, that ominous minute hand of hers stood just two ticks from the symbolically catastrophic 12. By 1991, after the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, it retreated to a relatively reassuring 11:43 p.m. But the Doomsday Clock, which Mrs. Langsdorf drew for the June 1947 cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as a way to evoke the potential devastation of nuclear weapons, did not stay in reverse. Before Mrs. Langsdorf died on March 26, at 96, the board of the Bulletin, which adjusts the minute hand acco... Read full biography
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Martyl Suzanne Schweig Langsdorf, Suzanne Schweig Langsdorf, Susanne Martyl, Martyl Schweig, Suzanne Langsdorf Martyl Schweig
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Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist.
Martyl Langsdorf, Doomsday Clock Designer, Dies at 96
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Published: April 10, 2013
Martyl Langsdorf's clock has yet to strike midnight.
In 1953, with the United States and the Soviet Union testing hydrogen bombs and the cold war increasingly frigid, that ominous minute hand of hers stood just two ticks from the symbolically catastrophic 12. By 1991, after the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, it retreated to a relatively reassuring 11:43 p.m.
But the Doomsday Clock, which Mrs. Langsdorf drew for the June 1947 cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as a way to evoke the potential devastation of nuclear...But wait, there's more...
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