Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems to us that you have erred greatly in undertaking to criticize our popular picture. We feel that an injustice has been done to our friends, our organization and our artist by your using our copyrighted "Head of Christ...
Died. Samuel Johnson Woolf, 68, famed artist-journalist (mostly for the New York Times), author (Drawn from Life, Here Am I) and onetime cover artist for TIME; of lateral sclerosis; in Manhattan. Woolf scored a success with his World War I battlefield paintings, hit on the portrait-interview combination in 1927 with a story on George Bernard Shaw, went on to do some 500 for the Sunday Times...
Degas' strong point, Valéry thought, was his "taste, a quality rather uncommon among artists." His taste made him as critical of his own work as he was of his critics; when people praised him he laughed in their faces. "He could not conceive of an artist seeing one of his paintings after a lapse of time without wanting to work on it again. Occasionally he would even carry off paintings that had hung for a long time on the walls of friends' rooms, taking them back to his lair, from which they rarely reappeared...
Butler believed that he was by nature a painter, spent years turning out mediocre canvases and damning art critics who had never heard of the "great" artist (a 16th Century Fleming named Jean de Wespin, alias Giovanni Tabachetti). He composed minuets, gavottes and fugues in the manner of Germany's Handel. He translated the Iliad and the-Odyssey into a breezy English that made the dons wince ("Calypso trembled with rage when she heard this. 'You gods,' she exclaimed, 'ought to be ashamed of yourselves' "), then added insult to injury by claiming that the "Homer...
...guards, Barclay will choose from three men: Walt McCurdy, Dick Covey, and Cliff Grosby. McCurdy, only player in addition to ex-Captain George Hauptfuhrer to be listed on the all-league squad last winter, is the team's outside man, the long set shot artist...