Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considerations have prompted me to write this book on Enrico Caruso's art: first, the desire to pay my tribute to the memory of a friend and a great artist, and second, the hope that I could pass on to all who are concerned with the art of singing Caruso's methods . . . and ideals of singing as well as his practical advice to singers." So speaks Salvatore Yucito, Caruso's coach and accompanist from 1915 until the great tenor's death in 1921, in introduction to his "Caruso and the Art of Singing." (Stokes...
...woman. Browning was masculine to the core and it was this quality which enabled him to write so well on the subject. He put everything he had into his writing and this included human insight and psychology. But he was not primarily a preacher or psychologist but an artist and it was in this line that he excelled...
...talk will be illustrated by moving pictures and stereopticon slides. Mr. Furlong, who is an artist by profession, has led a life of remarkable interest and activity. His biography is a series of exciting adventures, not only in the Western section of the United States, but in all parts of the world. It was in 1904 while exploring the northern part of Africa, that Mr. Furlong discovered in Tripoli Harbor the wreck of the United States frigate Philadelphia; sunk there by Lieutenant Decateur just one hundred years before. In 1907 he transferred his explorations from Africa to South America...
Funds for the first half-year have already gone forward to the artist, and Mr. Walter Deane '70 formerly president of the New England Botanical Club, has consented to aid in providing him with American material for the construction of the new models...
...Ware collection now on exhibition will be practically complete when twenty models and fifty magnified anatomical details, now in the artist's studio in Germany, have been transported to this country. Under existing conditions it is unsafe to transport them, especially as their removal "in bond" to Boston cannot yet be secured. Up to the time of the war, the glass flowers were shipped direct to Boston and then by the courtesy of the Custom House officials were carried directly to the Museum in Cambridge and were unpacked safely at the University...