Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Publication of the autobiography of Walter Crane, famous nineteenth century artist, in a volume to be illustrated with Crane's own sketches, is announced by the John Barnard Associates, a group of University booklovers. The most recent gift of A. H. Parker '97 to the College Library is an autobiographical memorandum made, in his own handwriting, by Crane in 1874. It is this notebook which will furnish the material for the John Barnard book scheduled to appear this winter...
...Modern artists have apparently reached a stage of development which would defy even the criticism of the most conservative critics. A certain Mr. Deckinson of the individualist faith, having painted a picture entitled "The Fossil Hunters" in ghostly gray with a recumbent old man delicately pointing a twig in the general direction of a grind stone in the semi-abstract, won a five hundred dollar prize. Unfortunately, the photographer commissioned to take a picture of this work of art, being a conservative in the matter of posing and of regard for the limitations of his patrons, noted something amiss...
...TIME will print photographs when, upon the news of a given week, it sheds more light and interest than the factual imagination of TIME'S artist's pen & pencil. 2) Subscriber Rasche suggests unphotographical scenes of the kind which, when of proper significance, TIME's artist will execute...
...about a drawing by your artist of President Hoover cracking his egg at breakfast? How about Ethel Barrymore making up before the show? Everything else you've drawn for us we've seen in photographs...
...Foshay, born in Ossining, N. Y., started out to be an artist. But his father's business failure put an end to his art courses at Columbia University.* For four years he worked with the New York Central Railroad Co., later he joined Electric Bond & Share Co. His career, however, did not start until the day he walked into Minneapolis, independent, 36, with little money but a shrewd knowledge and liking of public utilities. His plan: to own and operate public utilities. His method of finance: selling Foshay securities to the public. Within one year he owned public utilities...