Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herbert Livingston Satterlee's intimate portrait replaces the spotlight with genteel daylight. A Manhattan lawyer now growing venerable, Satterlee knew the Morgans when they were neighbors of the Satterlee family at Highland Falls on the Hudson in the '80s and '90s. He married Louisa Morgan, the eldest daughter, in 1900, and was a close friend and business aide of his father-in-law until his death in Rome in March 1913. Satterlee's 583-page book, now published after 26 years, is astonishingly complete, high-minded, reverent, and occasionally ingenuous or supercilious enough to transfix...
...90s, John Sloan was a staff artist on the old Philadelphia Press. Newsphotos had not yet been developed, and artists covered fires, parades, elections like reporters rushed back to do their drawings from notes or memory. In 1905 Sloan moved to Manhattan, settled in Greenwich Village as a book and magazine illustrator, etched and painted between commissions. His background gave Artist Sloan a taste for catching people in their unbuttoned moments, taught him it was no shame to tell stories in his pictures...
Though few remember it, Beard was famed in the '80s and '90s as an illustrator. His masterpiece was Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. (Said Mark Twain: "It was a lucky day I went netting for lightning bugs and caught a meteor.") His drawings of monks swigging ale got him boycotted for nearly ten years by most big magazines. Another time he was made to put shoes on Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, prohibited from drawing cows with udders...
France. Unlike the German army, the French army does not strut. The French people are proud of their soldiers, but do not worship them. Since the fiasco of General Boulanger's attempt at a military dictatorship in the 1880s and the Dreyfus case in the '90s, the French army has eschewed politics...
...native of Lafayette, Ind. (where he was an art-classmate at Purdue of George Ade and John T. McCutcheon), Bruce Rogers decided on book-designing instead of painting when he saw the first books of William Morris' famed Kelmscott Press. In the '90s, when Bruce Rogers started his career, U. S. books were as dingily printed as they were apt to be turgidly written. They provided an aesthetic sensation for readers not unlike that of walking along a muddy road in the dark. Bruce Rogers' imaginative, lucid, unaffected craftsmanship let air and light into book pages. Other...