Word: arte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Art is long, and if it is getting longer, so that its shadow falls on some bright colors, it may be a pity, but it's still Art. The part of the Dramatic Club in this extension seems to be to call attention to its play among other things...
Cartoonist Art Young of Wisconsin, Chicago, Manhattan, Paris and Bethel, Conn., drew some-of-the-first daily political cartoons and the first colored news supplements in the U. S., for the oldtime Chicago Inter-Ocean...
...still alive-&-kicking-alive enough to have gained and retained fame as a grand exalted past master of cartooning. His kicking is what has kept him from enjoying the mass reputation of men like Ding. Briggs, Bud Fisher. Something in Art Young resents contracts, syndication and orders as to what ideas he shall draw. He has free-lanced for 35 years in Life, Puck, Judge, Metropolitan and many another magazine, past and present, rather than earn the "big money" that Arthur Brisbane once told him he deserved as a syndicate artist. It was natural, perhaps. that just after giving this...
...heard all there was to hear, in Paris, about Gustave Dore, the enormously popular and prolific illustrator who most influenced his own art. He reached Paris six years too late (1889) to see Dore. Bouguereau was one of his teachers...
...sculptor once portrayed Art Young with one side of his face crying, the other side laughing. The object of both these emotions in Art Young is the world, not himself. About the latter he entertains chiefly a healthy curiosity, a self-respecting skepticism. Like most artists, he finds the money thing the most troublesome, but like few he has learned this general truth: "Nature never composes a scene just right for an artist. Even a mountain must be shifted to one side...