Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Excavating tombs in Egypt 17 years ago, diggers of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art found the mummy, swathed in heavy wrappings of linen, of a young man of Thebes named Wah. Wearing a gilded and painted mask, a red linen shawl, the mummy of Wah made a bright and cheerful appearance in its clean, neat bandages. The diggers took it back to the museum where it was placed on exhibition...
Inside those walls Arturo Toscanini was proving again his art, and allaying the fears of those who had heard the orchestra rehearse. A week prior it had been ragged, particularly in winds & strings. But the great master made the Brahms Second come out so clear and controlled. Schubert's Unfinished Symphony sing with such freshness that the audience could forget the flocks of frightened sparrows which swooped and twittered above their heads. There was no raggedness when, partly as a taunt to Nazi Germany, he led them through a scherzo by Jewish Felix Mendelssohn...
Boston Brahmins have never been able to decide whether their most famed painter was born in 1737 or 1738. Last week the Metropolitan Museum of Art cut the knot, arbitrarily picked the first date and gave as a bicentennial exhibition the largest showing of the works of John Singleton Copley the U. S. has ever seen. Forty-seven pictures were on view, borrowed from such diverse sources as Buckingham Palace, the St. Louis Art Museum, Harvard University, Lord Brabourne, the London Foundling Hospital, Hartford's Atheneum, and a Mr. Henderson Inches. The Metropolitan's Copley show traced...
...long, successful career, Artist Copley never lacked money. Born when Boston was the most prosperous city in North America, his childish bent for drawing was encouraged by his stepfather, Schoolmaster Peter Pelham, whose shingle advertised: "Reading, Writing, Needlework, Dancing, and the Art of Painting upon Glass." Peter Pelham was also a mezzotint engraver of real ability, made able portraits of Cotton Mather and the rest of Boston's thundering divines. Young John Copley worked with him, was welcomed in Boston's best houses. At the age of 16 he was already known as a skillful portraitist...
...sells, the firm can go to its storerooms in either Paris or New York and at a moment's notice produce an exhibition of Renoir, Monet, Degas or the rest, to knock out the public's eye. At long intervals the partners remember their duty to living art, introduce a new talent. They seldom take much of a chance. Any painter sponsored by cautious Durand-Ruel is apt to have enduring ability, and their patronage launches him convincingly. Last week this distinguished firm was showing for the second time in seven years the works of a youthful Frenchman...