Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine-by-twelve-foot canvas of five loosely sketched, bright pink nudes swinging in a wild dance across emerald green grass under a vivid blue sky hung last week on the walls of Manhattan Art Dealer Pierre Matisse, flanked by a group of photographs and autograph letters. Bewildering to the cautious mind, the canvas was of first importance to the U. S. art world for it was a full-size preliminary sketch for La Danse, the most famed mural decoration that Dealer Matisse's father, bearded Henri Matisse, ever did. Few U. S. art lovers have ever seen...
Meanwhile the Varsity, hampered by frost in its early morning Armistice workout, devoted most of its time to pass offense and defense. Yesterday George Roberts broke into the A team line up again replacing Art Oakes who takes his place on the B squad...
...partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.; of heart disease; in Bedford, N. Y. On his statement that General Motors stock was selling cheap in 1926, it rocketed from 189 to 214½. To Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., he gave $10,000,000, including a bird sanctuary, the Addison Art Gallery...
Died. Lorado Taft, 76, sculptor; of heart disease; in Chicago. He created Washington's Columbus Memorial Fountain, The Fountain of Time on Chicago's Midway for which at his death he was carving a companion Creation. He took up sculpture because he considered it "the one art that cannot be cursed with American 'casualness...
...firm stood the loss, tightened its belt for rehabilitation of its name. Of the three sons of Samuel Sachs, only one remained in the firm, Walter Edward Sachs, who sold his yacht and set to work on the wreckage. His brother Paul had long since retired to an art professorship at Harvard and an associate directorship of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum. Brother Arthur retired last year to the life he preferred in France. Dignified, cultured Walter Sachs, a Harvard classmate of Franklin D. Roosevelt has only one family partner, Howard Sachs, a son of Founder Sachs...