Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exquisite bit into its season's mosaic. Mme. Wanda Landowska was soloist, played to Josef Willem Mengelberg's accompaniment the Mazort Concerto in E flat, the Finale of his Harpsichord Concerto in D. Critics sat enthralled, spent their dearest words, said nothing worthy of so unique an artist...
Last week this scene was replayed in the Customs Court of Appeals in Manhattan. Another one of Brancusi's birds, a bright, sinuous piece of brass pipe, tapering at the ends in a not perfectly symmetrical curve, has been shipped from Paris to Edward Steichen, Manhattan photographer and artist. Denied duty-free admission as a work of art, it had been subjected to a tax of $229.35, more than a third of what Purchaser Steichen had paid for it. Appealing the decision, Purchaser Steichen appeared in court accompanied by experts who would support his claim that the bright enigma...
...worthy example of fine art. Most emphatic was Sculptor Epstein, who brought with him to court a 5,000 year old piece of stone, reputed to be an Egyptian representation of a hawk. "It is a matter of indifference what it represents," said Sculptor Epstein, "but if the artist calls it a bird, so do I. In this there are certain elements of a bird. The profile suggests perhaps the breast of a bird." "It might also suggest the keel of a boat or the crescent of a new moon," said Presiding Justice Waite. Assistant Attorney General Marcus Higgenbotham said...
...current loan exhibit at the Fogg Art Museum is a collection of oil-paintings and pencil drawings by Kanji Nakamura, a young Japanese artist who for the past seven years has been a pupil of Dr. D. W. Ross '75, an Honorary Fellow of the Fogg Museum...
...Previous prizewinners have been Marian Nevins MacDowell (wife of the late Edward A. MacDowell) for establishing artist colony at Peterborough, N. H.; Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart for educational work in the South Carolina mountains; Miss Sara Graham Mulhali, for work in suppressing traffic in narcotics...