Word: artful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern art lovers the attractions of this fulsome allegory have considerably tarnished. They tarnished even for MacMonnies, who went on to further fame with such works as Manhattan's Nathan Hale, Civic Virtue, France's Marne Memorial, before he died. But to the Congress of the United States its beauties are undimmed. Last week Congress passed a bill to authorize the fountain's reproduction in marble as a Washington memorial to the late, great MacMonnies...
...such local celebrities as Octogenarian Ella H. Goodrich, who does Whistler's Mother, and ebony-skinned Janitor Felix Nelson (Vedder's The African Sentinel), rehearse their tableaux as religiously as any Oberammergau Passion Player. This year, with the Assistance League of nearby Santa Ana offering $200 in art prizes, and the buildup of the local Chamber of Commerce corralling 1,500 spectators into every performance, The Festival of Arts at last got on a paying basis. Jubilant Director Ropp hoped to net $4,000, looked forward to the day when his pageant would have its own permanent outdoor...
Most uncomfortable woman in London last week was kindly, grey-haired Mrs. Lucy Macdonald, longtime manager of the staid and starchy Arlington Gallery. Mrs. Macdonald found herself with the season's most sensational art show on her hands; the pictures, she admitted herself, were terrible, and the artist admitted himself that he had palled around with real live U. S. gangsters. This appalling state of affairs came about because she had been too busy to go out to Chelsea and look at the paintings beforehand, and the artist "was so smooth and persuasive that I took a chance. When...
...most part, visitors to his one-man show last week agreed with Mrs. Macdonald. Bilbo's sloppy, raw-hued pirates, animals, nudes and caricatures of Hitler looked as if he had dipped his gat in the paint pot and then let fly at the canvas. But with metropolitan art critics, the astute, silk-toppered Artist Sir William Rothenstein, the Duke of Kent and bevies of Mayfair socialites swarming to see his pictures, and with the whole show bought by Scottish Art Dealer Andrew G. Elliot, the bushy-headed, self-styled ex-gangster pal could well afford to smile...
Novelist Blake likes stormy scenes. Cimactic chorus at a family fight: "One mezzo, one dramatic soprano, one lyric soprano, one croak (stork), one croak (raven), one tenor, one baritone, two basses, one refrain-money." Even the paintings in an art gallery quarrel. But the storm clouds lift often enough to reveal a memorable series of landscapes-Langue-doc's fertile vineyards, the endless suburbs of Paris, Arles in its lingering Roman splendor...