Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since sportsmen naturally like the art they own to reflect accurately the sport they love, most of the show was almost photographic. Most popular works: the hunting and fishing oils of 76-year-old Frank W. Benson, who is said to have earned $1,000,000 from duck pictures alone; Edward Herbert Miner's Man o' War and Four of His Famous Get; the winter canvases of A. Sheldon Pennoyer, who dashes down ski slopes as easily as he dashes off brush strokes; big-game wood carvings by Blackfoot Indian John Louis Clarke (Man-Who-Talks...
Exhibited at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week were three types of art from three nations. In one room were examples of U. S. industrial art in machined metal and glass. In another the Museum displayed modern furniture, scientifically designed in pale plywood by the brilliant Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto. Balancing these examples of machine and functional art was a third room in which visitors found reportorial art of the most sensitive kind-an exhibition of 105 drawings made in Spain by the Leftist artist, Luis Quintanilla...
...annual exhibition of the Art League of Springfield, Mass., a local, conservative painter named Henry J. P. Billings* sent a strangely affecting picture, Opus No. 1. It was accepted. Artist Billings promptly got some publicity by resigning from the League. His explanation: Opus No. 1 was the result of a deliberate attempt to paint the worst picture, in drawing, design, color and technique, that his ingenuity could devise. "Juries," said Joker Billings, "should be selected who have background enough to distinguish good from bad in modern art...
...dailies was strong evidence of the trend. Lease of two more was confirmation. So was consolidation of the two Hearst news services (Universal and International News), the recent disposal of the unprofitable Hearst radio station KEHE, Los Angeles, and the announcement that some $15,000,000 worth of art objects were for sale. This week Mr. Hearst's plan of liquidation was official fact...
...Russia, where physicians developed the art of preserving the blood of accident victims in order to build up a reserve or "blood bank" for transfusions,*eye specialists who pioneered in the art of transplanting new corneas to the eyes of the blind have recently established "cornea banks," by removing the corneas of dead people for use in transplanting operations...