Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris, making many friends, no money, began to talk wildly of escaping from civilization to the peace of the South Seas. The idea inflamed his café friends. Somebody pulled wires in the Ministry of Public Instruction and brought out a fine document authorizing Gauguin to make an artistic expedition to the Colony of Tahiti on behalf of the Republic of France-at no salary. A benefit performance was staged at the Théâtre des Arts for Gauguin and the equally impoverished Paul Verlaine. Artist Gauguin decorated the théâtre with his pictures; Verlaine, Maurice Maeterlinck...
Contrary to popular opinion, Paul Gauguin was not the first crack artist to paint Tahiti. That distinction belongs to the father of U. S. mural painting, John La Farge.* Artist La Farge left a brood of talented, talkative descendants and a mass of pictures, but he lacked color for the general public...
Colonial society on that Pacific island was outraged by Artist Gauguin's habit of pasting obscene postcards on his bedroom door, of insisting on public recognition of his native mistresses. In constant trouble with French officials and the police, he moved finally to the Marquesas Islands, built and worshipped a clay idol of his own designing, died, half-blind...
Prizewinning artist was Noble Foster Hoggson (1888), a dapper, peppery little gentleman of 71, member of the building firm of Hoggson Bros, which has in the past 45 years erected over 2,000 bank buildings throughout the U. S. Newshawks found Artist Hoggson in the club bar, more than willing to talk...
Critics were thunderstruck to learn that the $500 Palmer Prize for marine painting went to one Hayley Lever of Caldwell, N.J. and not to that persistent and popular sea painter, Frederick Waugh (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934 et seq.). Possibly the fact that Artist Waugh's entry entitled Ante Meridian (the one with the surf on the right) had already won one prize last December may have affected the judges...