Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their families found plenty to look at and plenty to like in the museum's galleries. Most of the 106 items of painting and sculpture were by good contemporaries, though two of the best were Millet's Woman with a Rake, lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Monet's Les Déchargeurs de Carbon. The artists ranged from such ununionized souls as Academician Jonas Lie and Merrymaker Doris Lee to Proletarians Joe Jones and Mervin Jules. The subject matter of Labor was conceived generously enough to admit a painting of industrial buildings by Classicist...
...idea that working people ought to get a chance at Art dates precisely from the time when the Industrial Revolution put an end to handicraft. Its prophets in Victorian England were William Morris and John Ruskin; one form of its fulfillment now is the Federal Art Project's Community Centre program (TIME, Sept. 5). Meanwhile, strict Marxists interpret the social use of art narrowly to mean that art should be an instrument of class struggle, and many Lovers of Labor subjects have appeared. One of these is able Sculptor Max Kalish, represented in the Baltimore show by The Spirit...
Established in 1907 in a handsome neoclassic building, the St. Louis City Art Museum was not detached from political control until 1911, when an independent Board of Control was set up and a special property tax of 2? on every $100 of assessed value was levied for museum maintenance. A recurrent impulse of St. Louis city administrations is to rescind this tax. When the cat controversy brought up such a proposal, the present Board of Estimate & Apportionment promptly recommended a reduction of the tax to if per $100 and the reinvestment of museum control in City Hall. Last week...
...subjects range from accountancy to zoology. They are supposed to cover a high-school and college education. National Educational Alliance's catholic curriculum includes such subjects as art, archeology, biology, literature, writing, interior decorating, photography, psychology, languages, philosophy. There are no courses in handcrafts or trades, because the alliance believes enough schools and publications already teach these...
...week was an inventory of the estate of Andrew Mellon. In 1931 "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Hamilton" had an admitted $205,000,000. But he gave $68,000,000 to his children as a 1931 Christmas gift, $35,000,000 to charity, his $50,000,000 art collection to the U. S., vast other sums to favorite Mellon projects like the University of Pittsburgh. At his death only $37,000,000 remained, all of which (except for $180,000 to domestic servants) he willed to his charity outlet, the A. W. Mellon Educational & Charitable Trust...