Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Displayed in the windows of J. J. Gillespie's art store, his lusty satires "attracted such crowds that one could hardly get along the street." Artist Blythe turned them all over to Gillespie's, got a permanent drawing account in return, never took more than $5 at a time. Unkempt, red-whiskered, hard-drinking and contemptuous of his new popularity, he was brusque with leading citizens, ran off to be a camp follower during the Civil War, died...
...fourth and probably final exhibition of this season's series of contemporary art showings, Dunster House is presenting the photographs of Eliot Furness Porter '24. The twenty pictures hung in the large common room comprise the major portion of the collection which Dr. Porter exhibited in his recent one-man show at the Delphic Studios in New York...
...work of art, however, I care more for the separateness of its parts than for the connection between them," he continued. "The essential is that three or four lumps of experience, received at different times, shall be blended so that they shall appear as though they had always belonged together...
...masks and costumes are being made by the students of the Yesper George School of Dramatic Art...
...weavers. Those sensible artisans, with six centuries of conventional design and solid, forthright colors behind them, threw up their hands in horror at Rouault's grotesque figures and great splashings of brick red and blatant blue. "Mais non!" cried they. "We will not soil our looms." Art was only art, however, and a living was a living. In the cottages of La Creuse valley, long-idle looms were dusted off and set to shuttling...