Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drawings the best is the one illustrating the Lampoon's advertisement; the most interesting is the one with the caption, "St Patrick's Day Is Greeted by Appropriate Ceremonies." This latter is in the manner of the Dial artists--full of exotic emotion and of strange technique (can the artist be satirizing?). The majority of the sketches, though, are amateurish originals or uncomplimentary copies. Often the jokes seem made to fit the drawings; or at least the one seldom fits the other. The ideas in the cover drawing are clever, but the drawing itself is careless...
Zuloaga, famed Spanish artist (TIME. Dec. 29, Feb. 2) offered, some weeks ago, the sum of $5,000 to start a memorial fund for George Bellows, famed U. S. artist, who died on Jan. 8 of acute appendicitis (TIME, Jan. 19). He suggested that the money-when other friends of Bellows, of Art, had swelled his benevolence—should be used to buy Bellows' Two Women (TIME, Jan. 12) for the Metropolitan Museum. The offer was made on the day of Bellows' death. On that day, Zuloaga and Bellows were both exhibiting in Manhattan. It is stated that...
...Miss Beaux, Manhattan artist in her late fifties, is self-taught. In 1896, six of her portraits were hung together in the May Salon—a rare distinction. She has painted Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Martina Brandegee, the late President Sharpless of Haverford, all exhibited in Manhattan...
...Graphic, two days later, he came upon an editorial. It was en- titled "An Artist's Dream and An Editor's Nightmare." Read he: "The slight earthquake which occurred last Saturday . . . was certainly news of such a kind that papers were under the strictest obligation to give all the facts and only the facts...
...When the Daily News covered its front page with a picture of the skyscrapers of lower Manhattan toppling over in an artist's dream of chaos, while a line across the top of the page announced that 'Quake Rocks City,' it definitely overstepped the bounds that responsible newspapers observe in playing up the news...