Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt and his entourage have long excelled at keeping him in the news by tying up his activities to wars, droughts and other Grade A news events. An extreme example of this art was provided by Secretary Early one day when the President himself did nothing of interest at Galapagos. The official news report from the Houston announced that landing parties tried to pump the settlers about Baroness Eloise Wehrborn, the queer German woman who. wearing silk panties and a pearl-handled revolver, sought to "rule" the island several years ago until she and her retinue of young males...
...ART OLSEN...
...Hawthorne, a painter's job was to "show people more than they already see," and beauty in art he defined as "the delicious notes of color one against the other." To see things simply, he insisted, is the hardest thing in the world-"When a man is sixty or seventy, he may be able to do a thing simply, and the whole world rejoices...
Charles Webster Hawthorne was 27 years old, had put in a few years as an art teacher, when he settled in Provincetown, Mass, in 1899. At that time Provincetown was a fishing village inhabited largely by Portuguese. A Chicago visitor said that Provincetown ladies decorated their hats with mackerel gills and swept their floors with halibut fins. But to Hawthorne, Provincetown's great natural resource was its summer light- brilliant and untempered, making houses, sand and wharves blaze against their backgrounds. In an old sail loft he established an art school. Before his death in 1930 it attracted...
...been painting in remodeled fish houses on Rock Neck Avenue, two rival groups sponsored exhibitions, the Society of Artists holding a spirited, uneven, no-jury show on the second floor of a store building, featuring cheerful pieces by young, rebellious Lawrence Beall Smith and Umberto Romano; the North Shore Art Association, twice as big, and more than twice as dignified, giving its 16th annual show in which Gloucester scenes, fishermen and sailing craft predominated...