Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labeled Portrait of an Officer, Artist Unknown, it looked like a good, average, 18th-Century antique wall-piece, the kind that lends hints of lineage to a paneled drawing room. Bailey Stanton, Chicago lawyer and amateur art collector, liked it enough to buy it at auction...
Died. Sadakichi Hartmann, eightyish, dramatist, artist, philosopher and mop-haired onetime "King of Greenwich Village"; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, son of a Korean woman and a German munitions worker, he married three times, begat 15 children, named one set after jewels, another set for flowers, was the boon companion of artistic greats, from Walt Whitman to John Barrymore...
...first the German artist was unwilling to give up his profitable business in sea creatures for the new and uncertain field of flowers. Finally, however, the Blaschkas sent several samples of their work to Cambridge for a closer inspection of their possibilities. Although almost all were destroyed at the New York Customs House, enough remained to convince Professor Goodale of their excellence...
Twenty-seven-year-old Dorothy Kirsten is no newcomer to opera. She has spent several years trouping in big and small parts with the Chicago, Cincinnati and San Carlo opera companies. To radio listeners she is already familiar as a guest artist on the RCA, Coca-Cola, Firestone and other big-time programs. Her new success is the latest milestone in her promising career...
...Chicago Art Institute's own great modern painting by the 19th-Century French Artist Georges Seurat-Sunday Afternoon on Grande Jatte Island, often called the finest single picture of its period...