Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Art followers could also take pleasure in Artist Jules's restrained, luminous color. Best pictures: Little Tailor, showing, through the huge foreground frame of a sewing machine, a pallid gnome bent over his stitching; Mine Baseball, in which the figures of the players are dark on a field yellow with late afternoon sunlight against a dark background of mine breakers and hills; Jury, whose procession of fat and lean brainless bourgeois figures directly recalled Daumier's treatments of the same subject; The Liberals, which presents, out on a limb, the Scientist, the Man who Sees Both Sides...
Mervin Jules was about 18 before he discovered he could draw. His family wanted him to be a cellist and for seven years he studied to be one. Then he got a scholarship to the Maryland Institute of Fine and Practical Arts, supported himself by waiting on customers in his uncle's clothing store. In 1933 Manhattan's Art Students' League gave him a librarian's job which paid for his tuition and he lived on $8.50 a week that winter, while working under Thomas Benton...
...work, like that of Goya, has had its significance renewed in a post-War era as turbulent as his own. The largest as well as the most interesting exhibition of Daumier yet held in the U. S. will open this week in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art...
...Curator Henry Plumer Mcllhenny, who assembled the present show, was to admit only those Daumier items whose authenticity is 100% established. So hard did young Mr. McIlhenny plug at this task of curatorial scholarship that his exhibition is by way of being a landmark in the scientific treatment of art. On the cover of the Daumier catalogue is no lithograph or painting but an X-ray photograph. The X-ray shows a section of the wood panel on which Daumier painted La Blanchisseuse (The Laundress), a celebrated work lent by the Louvre and insured for 3,000,000 francs...
Sterling Professor of English Literature At Yale, Tinker succeeds Johnny A. E. Roosval, of the University of Stockholm, in the chair established in 1925 by Charles C. Stillman '38 in memory of Charles Eliot Norton 1846, professor of the History of Art...