Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later years, he worked much in charcoal, in watercolor. His murals have manifested his passion for pure beauty in line, form and color. His industry never dwindled; it remained to the last as great as that of an artist who would never achieve anything. This fact was pungently observed by a woman who came upon Sargent doing a watercolor by a Hampshire wayside, stood, for several minutes, watching him. "Why do people imagine they can paint? There's a man whose hair is turning gray...
...prohibiting improper representation of the National Flag had been violated. They also found, on an inner page, a reproduction of a Manet nude, brazenly doctored to show a winking eye and a tipping wine glass. The title of this picture was given as The Goddess of Liberty; the artist, "Mr. Hotmama"; the caption, "If this be treason, make the most of it." The Boston Police Force did make the most of it. For the first time in The Lampoon's 40 years, it was ordered off the Boston newsstands by Law. Theretofore, its occasional involuntary suppressions had been commanded...
Died. John Singer Sargent, 69, famed artist; in London, of apoplexy...
...other strenuous Americans are commemorated. There, upon a frieze that belts the dome 75 feet from the floor, a fresco depicts scenes from U. S. history beginning with the landing of the bold Italian adventurer, Cristoforo Colombo. Work upon this design was started long ago by Constantino Brumidi, Italian artist, carried on by Filippi Costaggini, another Italian, but suspended in 1899 and never resumed. A gap of blank wall breaks the complete circuit of the frieze...
Next day, the press of the Nation affirmed, quite correctly, that the reward could not have been better bestowed. Tenor Hayes is an artist of the first rank. Born in Curryville, Ga., his mother a freed slave, he worked as a stove-molder, sang in a church choir, was encouraged to train his voice. At first, because of the incredible prejudice against his race, he received scant attention in the U. S. He went to Europe, toured England triumphantly, sang before King George in Buckingham Palace (TIME, Oct. 8, 1923), conquered hostile audiences in Germany, returned...