Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fiorello LaGuardia was back in New York's City Hall, looking natural but a little handsomer than life (see cut). The city had appropriated $2,500 for the portrait by New York Times Artist-Interviewer S. J. Woolf. If the art commission approves the picture, the Little Flower will be the first ex-mayor to hang in the Hall while still alive...
Bombs and artillery blasted his Madrid studio to rubble. His prodigious monument to the leader of Spanish Socialism, Pablo Iglesias (an eleven-panel mural containing 140 life-size figures), was destroyed. But the Fascists could never touch Luis Quintanilla the artist.* His drypoints, safely scattered in museums all over the world, continued to speak with the social force-if not the human weight -of Goya's best...
QuintanilLa turned soldier, conned books of military tactics by flashlight at night, and led Loyalist troops in the daytime. He earned the devotion of the doomed Republic by directing the attack on Madrid's Montana Barracks (which saved the city for a while). Between battles QuintanilLa the artist spread a hip-pocket sketchbook on his knee, crammed it with needle-sharp summations of democracy's clash with Fascism...
Last week, for the first time in the U.S., the visible by-products of Beckmann's war work went on view in a Manhattan gallery. His fiery heavens, icy hells, and bestial men showed why he is called Germany's greatest living artist...
...invitation, from the Associated American Artists, was of the stuffy variety. New Yorkers were invited to view the recent artistic works of "D.R. Fitzpatrick of St. Louis, Missouri." The Gallery did not let on that the artist was more widely known as Fitz of the Post-Dispatch, probably the most widely reprinted political cartoonist in the U.S. It was the second time in five years that the A.A.A. had honored Fitz with a show...