Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University Extension course, P. A. O'Connell, head of Slattery's in Boston, gave a lecture on the Art of Retail Selling." This was topped off with a fashion show which demonstrated the trends in women's fashions since...
...Technical Notes on Daumier," included in the catalogue, Philadelphians are given the results of a study conducted by Art Expert David Rosen and Curator of Paintings Henri Marceau, by means of X-ray and infrared photographs of twelve paintings and seven wash drawings. La Blanchisseuse and most of the other paintings were done on wood. Messrs. Rosen and Marceau discovered that each of the X-rayed wood panels had been scratched over as if by a fine-toothed saw, producing a texture like that of woven fabric. This gave a firm grip to the ground of gesso (whiting and glue...
Died. Dr. Elie Faure, 64, French art critic and parlor anarchist, author of what many still consider the world's most authoritative History of Art; in Paris. Dr. Faure turned writer after having been educated as a physician, took twelve years, 1909-21, to publish his History...
...years (everyone from the radio announcer to the Motor License Bureau knows my age)-for 51 years, to be exact†-I have been enjoying tremendously the adventure of being alive. I have had success and failure; and, perhaps, more than my share of fame in an art that I love passionately...
...FINER COOKING-X. M. Boulestin -Oxford University Press ($5). Discourse by a learned London chef on the "Ninth Art," filled with literary and historical allusions and 308 recipes of everything from soups to sundries. Two volumes: one with decorations by J. E. Laboureur, for the lady of the house; the other, of recipes only, for the cook...