Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of Rembrandt's etchings were placed on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum yesterday. The prints shown are selected from the collection belonging to the Museum, and include some of the artist's greatest works...
...dramatic miscegenation will shortly be enacted in the Provincetown Playhouse, Manhattan, by a brilliant Negro named Paul Robeson and a brilliant white named Mary Blair. The producers are the Provincetown Players, headed by Eugene O'Neill, dramatist; Robert Edmund Jones, artist, and Kenneth Macgowan, author. Many white people do not like the idea. Neither do many black...
...story which Wagner used for his Tristan is a story which has woven its spell around many another artist in tone or words. Poets without number have used it. It is perhaps the parent of the triangle-play; the plot is one which, if new, might cause as great a stir as that of Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings (see Page 16). For Queen Isolde has been given in marriage to King Mark; yet after a sip of a magic and non-Volstead potion she falls into the arms of Knight Tristan...
...eighth annual exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists is in progress at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. This exhibition (paintings and sculpture) is entirely different from any other important showing, having no jury to pass on the suitability of a picture. Each artist is entitled to rent a certain amount of wall-space, hang whatever pleases him. The exhibition this year has more entries than any previous Independent show...
...exhibitions of Aristide Maillol at the Whitney Studio Club and of Henri Matisse at the Brummer Gallery, both in Manhattan, show similar theories of art expressed respectively in sculpture and painting. While Sculptor Maillol is little known to Americans, artist Matisse's crude nudes and restless still-lifes have long been flaunted before a sceptical public...