Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, the Hammer Galleries was able to stage an exhibition to attract the attention of serious art critics. From its own large stocks, eked out by a few loans of friends, they presented a collection of 194 Russian icons covering seven centuries of Russian painting, the largest collection of Russian icons ever shown...
This sounded very much like the talk of a man whose zeal for his art impels him to seek a change of atmosphere but will not permanently keep him from work. This impression was strengthened by the fact that Muni has been considering an-other role, that of Haym Salomon, a Jewish banker and friend of George Washington who helped finance the Continental Army. Last week Warner Brothers announced that Salomon would be impersonated by Muni next, but it was shortly revealed that Muni had turned down the role on the ground that U. S. citizens might object...
...most startling characters in the U. S. art world are the Brothers Armand and Victor Hammer, one with a medical degree, both friends of Soviet Russia. Visiting Moscow in 1921 to do a few months' medical relief work in the Ural farming area, Armand Hammer ended up by staying nine years and with Brother Victor became one of the first foreigners to obtain commercial concessions in Russia, sold Ford tractors, Moline plows, later bought Russian beer barrel staves for his U. S. factories. Realizing that the Soviet bureaucracy was becoming swamped in a morass of official papers, they obtained...
Evenings Herrie attended art classes, soon became a favorite with the instructor, a well-known muralist named Sibley, and his oldest daughter Freda. But it was a long time, what with strikes, accidents, job-hunting and the like, before the factories relaxed their hold to let him devote his full time to painting. Subsidized at last by a rich woman, he went to live with the Sibleys, worked as hard at painting as he had in the factories. His first exhibition was a big success...
...artist much favored by the New Deal is bullnecked Reginald Marsh, Yale graduate, Associate of the National Academy of Design, painter of burlesque shows, locomotives, Coney Island. Out of the mass of New Deal art contracts, Artist Marsh has received enough to keep him almost continuously employed for the past three years, his best known murals being narrow panels of unloading mail sacks in Washington's new Post Office...