Word: artiste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hero of a round dozen biographies -and of several efforts to prove that he was really the "lost dauphin" of France. Popular editions of his Birds of America have sold over 200,000 copies. The Audubon Societies have perpetuated his name through hundreds of bird sanctuaries, imperceptibly transformed the artist who used to kill as many as 100 birds a day for sport into a sort of scientific St. Francis. Last week 68 unbound prints from Birds of America were proudly installed in Washington's National Gallery...
...Europe: anonymous patriots who could sometimes fight back a little, and-farther down-wanted men who had to burrow and keep hidden. Gisele van der Gracht's Amsterdam apartment was a station in the subcellar underground. Gisele, a thin blonde in her 30s, was a first-rank Dutch artist, known for her stained-glass window designs. During the occupation she spent half her days on bread lines to feed the men she was hiding. To help them pass the terrible time, she also found pens, ink and paper...
...matter how great the artist, Promoter S. (for Sol for Solomon) Hurok always gives himself top billing. Says he: "Audiences . . . know whatever S. Hurok presents is hokay...
...monies, the Crimson copped 216 1/6 of a possible 325 points for the two contests. The Fisher boys, Jack and Willo, started their hegemony over the weight events, finishing one-two and two-one in the hammer throw on the two successive Saturdays. Jack Hunter, high and low hurdle artist, was elected captain just after the first meet...
...Singing," says Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, "has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. Since I cannot sing, I paint." Last week 57 examples of her kind of song went on view in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Each one had the contrived spontaneity of music, and in each the melody of line and color meant more than the bones, blossoms, skyscrapers, barns, crosses and canyon walls she used for lyrics...