Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benton show proved that it has done Tom Benton good to go to art school, even though it took his present teaching job at the Kansas City Art Institute to make him stay in one. Such simple little paintings as Rainy Day (see cut), done last year, impressed critics as new and less superficial renderings of what Benton has in his head. Most surprising, however, were a number of beautifully constructed still lifes with real depth and richness of texture. Said Tom Benton: "What there is in me to do I now know that...
Last week Meraud Guevara had her first exhibition on Manhattan's 57th Street and the critics went down like ninepins. Her 26 paintings at the Valentine Gallery, all done in the last two years, showed a quality which is rare in art and which sometimes starts more enduring fashions than Treasure Hunts: the intelligent mastery and transforming use of a great past style. In this case it was the so-called "archaic" coolness and clarity of form of 16th-century French painting, after the great portraitist, François Clouet. The line in Artist Guevara's pictures seems...
...they liked the play or not, ostentatiously confessed ignorance of what it meant. A long, amorphous one-acter, it tells of an unsuccessful poet and his little son who live, not always even from hand-to-mouth, in a California town. Upon them stumbles an aged Shakespearean ham actor (Art Smith), a runaway from the Old Folks' Home, whose playing on a trumpet delights his hosts andthe townsfolk. The old actor finally dies spouting King Lear, and the poet and his son are evicted from their little house, take bravely to the road...
Like all cars the Derham Brothers turn out, Mr. Whalen's is a synthesis of the automaker's science and the body-builder's art. It seats nine people comfortably (aside from any on the top), is equipped with fog lights, radio, streamlined glass wind-wings, many another luxury, including extra-depth cushions for Fair visitors who may be as tender as they are distinguished. It contains $1,850 worth of chassis and engine, $5,150 worth of body and design...
...Art Johns and Bob Gannett provided those first two markers, and Dick Grondahl squeezed across another in the fifth canto. Art Johns walked in the seventh, was sacrificed to second, and came home on Lupe Luplen's single one of the three base knocks he collected off Farber yesterday afternoon...