Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That prints of such quality should be made available to the public at a price of less than ten cents apiece is no mean achievement in itself. And their educational effect can be measured in the cities where they have appeared by increased attendance at art museums and generally greater appreciation of the art of painting...
MILDRED CONSTANTINE National Committee for Art Appreciation New York City...
Sporting (pointers, setters, retrievers, spaniels). Westminster's versatile Chairman Harry Peters (who last month insisted in a Metropolitan Museum of Art lecture that sport has influenced art more than religion) had entered, beside his greyhound, a lemon & white pointer named Sensation, which his son had bought "for a bark" (actually $50) from a Rochester, N. Y. farmer. Though best of the pointers, Ch. Windholme Sensation lost in the sporting group to a mere pup, Sportsman Dwight Ellis' gay English setter, Daro of Maridor...
...general could be improved artistically has been studied by a group of Manhattan artists. Some WPA and some not, but all members of the United American Artists, they believed that this extracurricular activity in the public weal would be their best argument for a Federal Bureau of Fine Arts. Last May the Union's Public Use of Arts Committee started preparing an exhibition of murals and sculpture for subways which last week opened at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Said the Museum's catalogue...
...vibration, dirt and cold. Technical aid on these points was available from one of the best-qualified experts on artists* materials in the U. S. Many artists credit 40-year-old Ralph Mayer with reviving tempera painting almost singlehanded through his course on it at Manhattan's Art Students' League in 1931. A chemical engineer and painter, black-haired, intent Mr. Mayer developed for subway muralists two new methods which last week appeared successful...