Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writing is obscure to those who expect mere surface description. But the translation is itself an admirable work of letters. He treats of sculpture and architecture with fair attention as well as painting. He has not produced a text or an encyclopedia, but tells only enough of an artist and his works to convey his spiritual and historical relations. He follows no set division, except a geographical one: in the present volume, Florence, Rome, Venice, Flanders, monarchical France, Reformation Germany...
...adventure stories for boys. He it was who first made Stevenson, Cooper, Malory's Morte d'Arthur-not to mention his own Robin Hood, Otto of the Silver Hand, etc.-alive in many a boy's heart; but he was also a great and serious artist on canvas and in mural decoration. Pyle was born in Wilmington, Del., in 1853, and lived there until his death in 1911. He knew the satisfaction of being an honored prophet in his own community. To his home flocked students, for he was an inspired teacher who taught for love...
...endless inspirations," placed a group of "modern American pieces" - jazz. She sang a large group of jazz compositions ranging from the archaic Alexander's Ragtime Band to the almost contemporary Do It Again. This is the first time, to the present reviewer's knowledge, that a serious artist, and one of the most scholarly sort, has included in a formal concert the sliding, slippery rhythms of jazz. The famed popular composer, Arthur Gershwin, was at the piano for the "modern American" group. That vouched for the jazzy authenticity of the piano rhythms. But how did a severely schooled...
...Taos, Albuquerque, Santa Fe and other New Mexican centers, live artist colonies as vigorous as those of Provincetown, Old Lyme, Gloucester or Woodstock, attracted by Indian atmosphere and other exotic themes. Eight of these painters have organized a society called the New Mexico Painters. It includes: F. G. Applegate, J. G. Bakos, Gustave Bauman, Ernest L. Blumenschein, William P. Henderson, Victor Higgins, B. J. O. Nordfeldt, Walter Ufer-Blumenschein, Higgins, Ufer are particularly well known as painters of Indian and desert subjects. The purposes of the group are twofold: 1) "To produce beautiful and vital works of art" inspired...
...exhibition in the Print Room of the Fogg Art Museum. Among these are prints by some of the earliest and most important of the German engravers, culminating in the work of Martin Schongauer. The Schongauer prints, which are on exhibition are of remarkable brilliancy and beauty. They illustrate the artistic career of the artist. The exhibition has been arranged especially for the students in Fine Arts 5f. and will remain for about two weeks...