Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures and some other nudes, the embattled independents protested indignantly, refused to compromise by hanging the pictures in a separate room. Though the store's contract for the exhibition provided that ''The Fair shall have absolute right to eliminate from [its] premises any such works of art as it may desire," the artists believed that the cherished no-jury principle had been violated, apparently not by the contract, but by the fact that the contract had been invoked. Sadly The Fair's Advertising Manager Arthur D. Buckland, himself an artist, withdrew his picture from the show...
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Walter P. Chrysler D.Eng. Director Herbert Eustis Winlock of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art Litt.D...
...food and water, the Girl Pat had called at Devil's Island, sailed out again without papers. Few days later, again out of supplies, the little tub appeared at Georgetown, anchored four miles off the beach. Primed to nab the outlawed craft, port authorities sent U. S. Pilot Art Williams, in Guiana after an air search for Paul Redfern, to fly over her. When Williams reported she was indeed the Girl Pat, a police launch set out to arrest her. As it drew alongside, the Girl Pat's doughty crew of four appeared at the rail stripped...
...back the figure of the late Father Francis P. Duffy, famed Wartime chaplain of the 69th New York Regiment. This $15,000 job, to adorn Manhattan's Times Square, was given direct to Sculptor Keck by the Father Duffy Memorial Committee and approved by the New York Municipal Art Commission...
...lines. Six of the seven members appointed by liberal little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia scorned the majority recommendation that Frederick Bertrand Robinson should be retained, but with disciplinary powers clipped. When the Board voted further to select a subcommittee to figure how this was to be done, two members, Art Critic Lewis Mumford and Scripps-Howard Financial Pundit John T. Flynn, disgustedly snorted: "Whitewash...