Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gratified with TIME, Oct. 3. My pleasure was derived from the sight of Graham McNamee on the coyer. How great he looms in these days 'tis hard to estimate. He is assumedly an artist with great abilities, and astonishing power (nine men died from the excitements aroused by Mr. McNamee's voice...
...invited by the U. S. Polo Association, members of which had heard him spoken of abroad as "the finest painter of horses in the world," to come to the U. S. and make pictures of the International Polo matches. The Association urged 500 notables to visit the studio of Artist Koch at No. 127 Fulton Ave., Hempstead, L. I. Of the 500, one came to the studio. It became obvious to Artist Koch that in the U. S., unlike Europe where his works hang in museums, where artists speak of him almost with reverence, where an invitation to his studio...
Around littered newspaper offices the news was interesting trade talk, but not startling. Journalists gossiped vividly over the report that Mr. Watson is having his Mirror office painted a gentle grey; has commissioned Joseph Urban, artist, architect, designer of scenery for the Follies, to paint three murals there...
...scene, called "Night Life before Yale Game," depicts a group of faithful members of the Class of 1900 dancing about the festive board, and is drawn by the Boston artist, Carroll Bill '00. It is a pleasant introduction to the editorials and the list of achievements of famous and less famous 1900 men, contained inside. Among these notablees are William Phillips '00, Minister to Canada, Dwight F. Davis '00; Secretary of War, Mark Sullivan '00, political writer, and Walter Hampden '00, the actor, who has just been elected president of the Players' Club of New York...
...Over this story of Will Stickney, of Naomi Lestrange (whom he marries, with whom he parts after vicissitudes, to whom he returns at the last), of many highly imaginary musical celebrities, there is a heavy coating of dust which almost obscures the few virtues which Author Bacon, as an artist, possesses. Whether literature has improved or changed in the last ten years, cannot here be decided; but certainly it has changed its channel, and Mrs. Bacon's writings, once islands, are now dry, tedious wastes, unprofitable for readers to explore...