Word: apprenticeships
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...little girls. With extreme freedom of line, the work of both is eminently suitable for arty magazines. Both have the trick of inserting self portraits in most of their pictures. But Marie Laurencin is 45, red haired, very much a woman of the world, served a long painstaking art apprenticeship before her paintings caught the public fancy. Jack von Reppert-Bismarck is bashful, blonde and 22, looks about 15, and is something of a child prodigy...
...other two men to attend the meeting from the School will be Bancroft Beatley '15, associate professor of Education, and L. L. Dudley '21, assistant professor of Education. The former will preside over a discussion of Secondary Education, while Dudley will talk on "The Harvard Plan of Apprenticeship in Administration," in the meeting on Educational Administration, both to be held on Tuesday. On the final day, Dean Holmes will preside at the general session for the 1931 yearbook of the Society...
This generalization is obviously true so far as the enduring work of George Luks is concerned. His artistic apprenticeship has been long and tough. When still in his 'teens he worked with his brothers in the highly specialized profession of safe-painting, decorating the strong boxes of merchants with elegant sunsets, landscapes, floral trophies. He varied this by painting band wagons, houses, campaign posters. Artist Luks still insists that he helped found one soapmaker's fortune by painting his signs on the sides of old-fashioned grocery stores. He saved enough to study painting in Philadelphia, in Paris...
...edge of the Ozarks, a great-nephew of Andrew Jackson's trusted Senator Thomas Hart Benton, son of Congressman Maecenas Eason Benton. At 17, Maecenas' son was carrying a chain as a surveyor's assistant in Joplin. Shortly thereafter he began a long, arduous, uninteresting art apprenticeship as a newspaper cartoonist, then as an art student in Chicago, Paris, New York, where he kept himself alive painting scenery for the old haphazard cinema studios of Fort Lee, N. J. Six months in the Navy during the War knocked the French impressionism out of him. He began...
...After an apprenticeship as a stage baby, Jackie Coogan, 4, was doing the shimmy in a vaudeville act with Annette Kellerman when Charles Chaplin, then meditating The Kid, put him on contract. After he had made 14 pictures Jackie's parents sent him to Loyola High School in Los Angeles. Now 16, he is in the junior class, weighs 95 lb., likes to wear white spats away from school. His allowance, until recently, was $20 per week when he was earning about $3,500 per week...