Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawings left, there was still enough to make the show one of the most important of the 1936 season. Possibly the high spot of the whole exhibit is Lucas Cranach's famed Venus und Amor, the property of the Nűrnberg National Museum. On this panel medieval Artist Cranach shows a slim Venus, draped in a diaphanous veil wagging a warning finger at a pug-nosed Cupid who has pulled a honeycomb from a tree, and suffered severe bee stings as a result. In the upper right hand corner Medievalist Cranach appended his moral: Dum Puer Alveola Furatur...
Life was born in 1883 as a weekly in the Broadway studio of a New York artist named John Ames Mitchell. Thirty-seven at the time, Mitchell pined to publish his black & white drawings by the new zinc process and for that purpose was willing to spend a $10,000 legacy from a relative...
Level-headed Publisher Henry Holt told Artist Mitchell that Life's life would be short, advised him to stay out of a field in which Judge and Puck were already established. Single-minded Publisher Mitchell went ahead with his plans, engaged as literary editor a young man named Edward Sandford Martin. Six years out of Harvard, where he was a founder of the Lampoon, Martin had the definite idea that that college comic could be transmuted into a professional periodical...
...Artist-Publisher Mitchell drew the first Life nameplate with its mascot cupids, later contributed the famed masthead of a knight leveling his lance at the posterior of a fleeing devil...
...health, there was no dearth of energetic contributors. From the magazine's point of view, most important of these was Charles Dara Gibson. To Life for $4 he sold his first contribution: A dog outside his kennel baying the moon.* Encouraged by a publisher who was also an artist, Gibson was joined in Life's early pages by such celebrated draughtsmen as E. W. Kemble (funny Negroes), Palmer ("Brownies") Cox, F. G. Attwood...