Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fashionable art previews in Manhattan bring ladies and gentlemen together for cocktails. In Chicago, they bring ladies together for tea. Last week such an affair at Chicago's Quest Art Galleries stimulated socialite previewers to start a fresh artistic...
Collected last spring by enterprising Edith Gregor Halpert of Manhattan's Downtown Gallery, the Quest show was called "Children in American Folk Art, 1725-1865." Patrons included Mr. & Mrs. Robert Maynard Hutchins and other good Chicagoans. In one room were portraits of children by journeymen painters of the early 19th Century. In another were 45 paintings done by children between 1800 and 1861. Quest rooms on the second floor contained pictures by contemporary artists of the Chicago Public Schools. Chicago ladies found this combination of historical, local, esthetic and sentimental interests so irresistible that they bought paintings right & left...
Little girl escapists who put their imaginations to more cheerful use turned out pictures of landscapes inspired by romantic literature: Dunbarton Castle, The Lady of the Lake, A View in Asia. Boys who seldom went in for velvet or water colors got their chance at art in "steel pen exercises" in colored ink, supposed to help penmanship. Subjects varied from Napoleon on Horseback to Kittens at Play. "Fractur" painting with quill pens and homemade colors, a survival of medieval illumination which flourished among the Pennsylvania Germans, had at least one child virtuoso in William Henry Oberholtzer, who was in school...
Junior Programs ties up its entertainment with school work by providing schools with materials for related art, music & dancing activities. Elated by children's response to her shows, Mrs. McFadden last week blamed adults for depraving their children's taste so that when they grow up they "patronize the most inane motion pictures, vaudeville and burlesque shows. If left alone a child will instinctively enjoy beauty and good drama. It is the adult who makes a disparaging remark about the dullness of opera and makes fun of so-called 'highbrow' music and the dance, who influences...
...works of fiction, 29 books on history and current affairs, seven mystery stories, 13 books of poetry and plays, 15 adventure books, twelve on science, twelve on art and 56 miscellaneous volumes...