Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assistants are several figures formerly prominent at the Court of St. Petersburg, who are now emigres in America. An orchestra under the direction of Teodsy Riesen entertains the clientele with typical Russian music, in a room with mural decorations done in the best manner of Nicholas Haritonov prominent Russian artist...
...FARINGTON DIARY, VOL. III*-Joseph Farington. Edited by James Greig - Doran ($7.50). If Joseph Farington was a mediocre artist, he at least excelled as a diarist. He seems to have known everybody worth knowing and his books teem with piquant anecdotes about Nelson, George III and IV, Pitt, Napoleon...
Dreaming forest, flowery bush, red cliff, turquoise sea; that is Montauk Point, Long Island, N. Y. In Montauk, Childe Hassam, famed artist, paints pictures of the countryside. Last week, he exhibited a group of them in Manhattan. It is always afternoon in Montauk; there whisper trees more shadowy than any that ever stooped their boughs in Eden; gods live there and fairies, so says the brush of Mr. Hassam. Diana as Spring bursts arrowy-footed through the wood, paling with her whiteness the white dogwood blossom; in The Grove of Aphrodite nymphs move to pipes unseen, sentineled by poplars; Dryads...
Before her as she wrote her adver-tisement came "the earnest faces of the 14,000 students of the University of Berlin, representing 17 nationalities, before whom I was invited ta sing and speak by the official heads of the University (I being the only American artist who had been thus invited)." And she wound up: "Never have I been so imbued with the desire to bring joy, to elevate the children through my art, my, pen and my deep religious convictions; and I am more earnest, interested and active than ever since I know that thought is force...
Like Goya, he is an artist close to the bull ring. He loves lean people whom adventure has brightened and blooded, who wear a jewel in their eyes. Gypsies from the hills, Gitano dancers, wild wandering singers, toreadors. These are his friends, But Zuloaga's conception of his art is less dramatic in spirit, less passionate and more pictorial. Much of his work is portraiture but of a type that, allowing for differences of technique, is more like that of Velasquez than of Goya in vividness. The U. S., during the ensuing weeks, will have the opportunity of analyzing...