His lasting contribution here, he said, was to point out that instead of lugging each sheep up the beautiful winding stone staircase, anaesthetising it and diagnosing pregnancy by opening it up, one could merely feel its belly while it was still outside.

ECONOMIST: Mont Liggins | The

The primitive "Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire" (1945) emerges from a fog, the grazing sheep as archaic as the megaliths.

WSJ: What Went On in the Dark | Bill Brandt | Shadows and Light | Museum of Modern Art | By William Meyers