Word: artful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...field of art and architecture, Professor W. C. Sabine's forthcoming book on Acoustics is perhaps the most notable. There are works dealing with many branches of modern science and mathematics, and on philosophy and religion...
Some of the work done in the free-hand drawing courses during the year has been put on exhibition in the Small Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum. The exhibition will remain on view until after Commencement...
...Fogg Art Museum has received, as an anonymous loan, an important painting by Sir Henry Raeburn, the greatest of Scotch painters. The picture is a portrait of Mrs. Henry Veitch, a great grand-daughter of Annie Laurie. It was painted in 1807 or 1808, and represents the artist at his best. It is not certain how long this masterpiece will remain at the museum, but it probably will not be removed until next Wednesday. There is a possibility, however, that it may be necessary to return the picture to its owner early tomorrow...
...only partial vitality to a rather cheap and bromidic sketch. The description of "The Round Up" by Mr. Fleming is vivid in spots and needs only a greater trimness of style to be even more effective. In his sketch after Tolstoi, Mr. Amory has achieved success in the difficult art of intelligent parody. The picture of Adam Agnostovitch mowing the lawn for fifteen hours was worth drawing. The best piece of prose in the number is Mr. G. Lamont's. "Your Rickshaw Man." The style is genuinely artistic in its flavor, the description lively and accurate...
...Pack" is vivid, imaginative, individual, quaint--much the best thing in the number, both in conception and in execution. "An Aesthete's Nightmare" proves how rare the extreme aesthete type is in our midst--Mr. Dos Passos would never have to resort to such obvious and wholesome objects of art as the Venus de Milo, a Buddha, and Parrish's "Pirate Ship" if he had ever seen the animal in the wild state in his native lair--in Oxford, for instance...