Word: artful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Underground but far from dormant is art in wartime London. Fortnight ago the Stafford Gallery, in a basement hardly a bomb's throw from St. James's Palace, opened the first important art show seen in London since the war began. Head of the Stafford Gallery is high-strung, capable Mrs. Ala Story. Keystone of her plan, a British Art Centre...
Organizer Story has formed a committee of Big Names, from Hugh Walpole to A. P. Herbert, has turned her basement into a rallying place for artists, patrons, critics, buyers, the art public. Air raids need not overly annoy visitors, for the British Art Centre has full club facilities, including a bar and easy chairs...
...Mystic, Humorist Galore, Ex All Round Athletic Sportsman (to 1889), Scientist supreme: all ologies, Ex Fancy amateur Dancer. . . ." He wrote crank letters to the newspapers. His letterhead: "Mahatma Dr. Louis M. Eilshemius, M.A. etc., Mightiest Mind and Wonder of the Worlds, Supreme Parnassian and Grand Transcendant Eagle of Art." His paintings, on the rare occasions he could get them shown, brought horse laughs from critics and public alike...
...Pacific Coast; a fifth was about to be sent through the Middle West. In seven short years the Mahatma has turned from a crank to a cult. Manhattan's sedate Metropolitan Museum has three of his canvases, and he is represented in virtually every important public and private art collection...
...Mahatma protested less, the art world would almost certainly have accepted him sooner. Not until 1932 did dealers and critics pierce his smoke screen of self-publicity, discover that his naive, whimsical paintings were worthy of serious attention. For a song, dealers then snapped up his lush romantic landscapes, his pictures of Samoa, his moonlit fantasies, his strange nude "nymphs" bathing in improbable streams. These have since sold at high prices, while Eilshemius went in want. Last week his three Manhattan dealers agreed to cut him in on a percentage of future sales...