Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Artist Krans below his buffalo-horn mustache sported a full goatee, or Imperial. Reaching its greatest glory on the person of Vittorio Emanuele II, this type of whisker was named for the slightly less imposing beard of Napoleon...
Design. Its purpose is to employ artist-draughtsmen to visit collections of U. S. antiquities, make careful drawings of furniture, chests, ironware, pottery, costumes, etc., for distribution to schools and colleges. As last year, a sizeable section was set apart for the work of children in state-supported institutions. Some of their output, particularly the sculpture, was better than that of the adults. Outstanding were a plaster head of a miner by 15-year-old Mike Mosco; a stone buffalo by 11-year-old Antony de Paolo, who was run over and killed by an automobile few weeks...
...about three and a half centuries print-makers had been producing popular-priced prints in unlimited editions. About the middle of the last century a new trend began to emerge, the tendency to make prints more precious and expensive. The artist printed fewer and fewer proofs, limiting the total to from 25 to 100 and then destroyed the plate. And he charged correspondingly more for each proof because they were so few. Furthermore about 65 years ago it became customary for the artist to sign each print in pencil, no doubt to show that he approved of its quality...
...same time last week another artists' group, Living American Art, Inc. announced that for $5 apiece it was prepared to sell collotype* reproductions of a series of 48 pictures to be chosen annually by a jury composed of Artists Louis Bouche, Adolf Dehn, Alexander Brook, Hughes Mearnes. A small royalty will be paid to the artist on the sale of each print. Living American Art expects to do more than merely sell good reproductions at reasonable prices. A special shipping case has been designed in which twelve prints can be fitted without injury. Any reputable school...
LETTERS TO AN ARTIST-Vincent van Gogh-Viking ($3.50). Fifty-eight letters written by a tormented genius to a young Dutch aristocrat and artist. Written from 1881 to 1885, they give some insight into van Gogh's personality and aspirations, contain discussions of other painters as well as his theories about his own work. Illustrated, the book contains seven facsimiles of van Gogh's letters, showing the sketches with which he illustrated them...