Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Hubbard consider Artist Rockwell's own opinion that painting and illustrating are "two separate fields, like writing opera and popular music...
...downs. I was up as high as staff sergeant once. ... I have a hot temper. They thought when I came here that I'd never learn to make anything with my hands but black eyes. [This] is easier on the hands, and more satisfying." Another Dix artist has even refused to leave Ft. Dix on his days off. He stayed to work on his paintings...
This brisk bit of skulduggery permits antisocial Painter Farll to assume his valet's name and begin a new life as a starving artist. The arrangement works well until 1) the valet's wife (Una O'Connor) and family turn up and denounce the fraud; 2) an art dealer is accused of selling forged Farlls...
...draws Little Orphan Annie is balding, cigar-smoking Harold Lincoln Gray. Despite the fact that the New Deal-hating Chicago Tribune has been hitting relentlessly at gas-ration "muddling," bureaucracy and Government interference with private enterprise, Artist Gray has been-repeatedly warned by the Tribune-News Syndicate to keep controversial issues out of his strips. He ignored the orders because 1) he is publicity-wise, knows the value of having his strip talked about; 2) he is an all-out, old-line conservative Republican himself; 3) he finds it difficult to keep Annie "in tune with the times" and simultaneously...
Illinois-born (49 years ago), Harold Gray was a farm boy until he graduated from Purdue University in 1917, then became a $15-a-week reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Soon he was art-department handyman. In the early 1920s he helped Artist Sidney Smith (The Gumps), finally created a strip of his own, Little Orphan Annie, which is circulated in 345 papers and, with a circulation of approximately 16,000,000 daily and 20,000,000 Sunday, nets Artist Gray a six-figure annual income, enables him to live and work in an expansive home in Green Farms, Conn...