Word: artful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years, with the collaboration of the Associated American Artists, Art Critic Thomas Craven has been sorting 2,500 U. S. lithographs and etchings into a big heap of rejections, a little heap of selections. His little heap appeared last week as a book* containing 100 (10 in. by 13 in.) black & white prints by such top-flight U. S. artists as Thomas Benton, John Steuart Curry, Boardman Robinson, John Sloan, Grant Wood, for the first time brought together the most significant black-&-whites by outstanding U. S. artists in a handy, inexpensive form. Thoughtfully, the publishers perforated the binding...
Discoveries like this are recurrent mysteries in the art world. Often enough they end in disappointment. What made Carlo Noya's picture sensational is that, although there are many Leonardo drawings, experts concede only 13 (some only four) da Vinci paintings to exist. The British Museum has one of the best of numerous pen studies for a Madonna with the Cat. In Britain, too, is the one man whom Italian scholars need to consult before pronouncing their find authentic, Sir Kenneth McKenzie Clark, director of the National Gallery since...
Looking thus at da Vinci's art, Kenneth Clark finds himself most attracted to certain works of precisely the same period as the Madonna with the Cat, done in Leonardo's late twenties. The drawings for the Madonna with the Cat "show, as nothing else in his work, a direct and happy approach to life " As Leonardo's intellectual wrestle with painting went on even his drawings became less spontaneous and his paintings took on a cold quality of mystery...
...British art of change ringing (not to be confused with carrillonning) only five to twelve bells are used. These are played by pulling ropes, one man to a rope...
They are two mild Cleveland youths named Jerry Siegel, who writes the continuity, and Joe Shuster, who draws the pictures. Shuster went to the Cleveland School of Art and Siegel just went to high school. Last year they started something called the American Authors'* League to help ambitious and unknown authors, decided to begin by helping themselves, and concentrated on comic strips. Superman, the only one they have sold, first turned up in Action Comics, a monthly, was taken up by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate last January. It now appears in New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Milwaukee...