Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grandes Princesses", an outstanding canvas by Marie Laurencin, portrays a group of sophisticatedly naive, dark eyed ladies, painted in the melting, pastel shades typical of this artist...
George Braques, who with Picasso was an exponent of Cubism before 1914, is represented by a "Still Life". Here the predominating tones are black, green and red. The composition, geometric in character, reveals the profitable influence of Cubistic training without being dominated by this school. The artist achieves here a powerful effect by the use of strong outlines which emphasize the objects...
...promising career is represented by the "Portrait of a Young Woman." This picture embodies much of the elusive charm of a Quattrocento portrait. It is interesting to compare this work, executed in sombre colors, with the rather harsh Modigliani "Woman and Child" in the Fogg Museum where the artist is working in a very different vein...
Ausable Forks, New York, March 20--Charging that the Harvard School of Business Administration's award of the Bok Advertising Prizes was "clearly and frankly in the class with dog and cattle shows," Rockwell Kent, famous author, artist, and adventurer, today stated that his only purpose in demanding the entire $1000 voted by the Bok-Harvard Prize Jury to Marcus and Co., Jewelers, for an advertisement featuring his work, was to erect a Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial "as near as possible to Mr. Baker's Harvard Business School...
...Frankly, I hate golf," declared Gilda Gray, well-known movie star and shimmy artist, when interviewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter. "I get plenty of exercise doing my little act on the stage...