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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Books & Publications (9)
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Biographical Directory of Kansas Artists Active Before 1945
2006
Craig, Susan (Compiler)
0 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
An American Art Colony: The Art and Artists of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1930-1940
2004
Kerr, Scott; R H Dick
235 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West
1998
Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick
405 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings
335 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)