Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roller Derby enthusiasts, other than Promoter Seltzer, cannot expect to make a living from their vocation, most are intermittently engaged in other work. When the current Chicago Derby started, the field included a butcher, a candy wrapper, a steel mill worker who holds eight roller-skating records, a commercial artist, a tattooed French sailor who had a lady's portrait scraped off his hip in a fall last fortnight, a golf-club maker and a pretty 21-year-old girl who claims to be a cousin of Herbert Hoover. She, Elizabeth Hoover of Kansas City, with her tall, blond...
Critics promptly hailed him as the greatest U. S. primitive painter since Pittsburgh's John Kane. There was much similarity in their work. Artist Hoyer, like Artist Kane, painted ingenuous landscapes of pink and yellow houses under cloudy skies with plenty of rich green trees. Also like Artist Kane, there was a great deal more shrewd technique in Artist Hoyer's paintings than appeared at first glance. Pittsburgh's Kane got much attention from the Press because he had once been a housepainter. Chicago's Hoyer was the first able painter that anyone could remember...
...away liniment and leotard for good, settled in Chicago. At present he works four days a week in a factory, and at his show last week he introduced to the assembled Neoterics a dark, middle-aged man as his boss. Where the factory is and what Artist Hoyer does in it are his own secrets...
From Manhattan's Greenwich Village, where struggling artists exhibit their pictures, to 57th Street, where successful artists do the same thing, takes 15 minutes in the subway. It has taken many a worthy artist half a lifetime to make that journey. A show last week at the swank uptown Walker Galleries, attended by all the first-string critics of the city, showed that 27-year-old Joe Jones, onetime St. Louis housepainter, could make it in seven months. His first one-man show in Manhattan was held in Greenwich Village's A. C. A. Gallery last May, promptly...
...bits of class consciousness as We Demand, Garbage Eaters, Demonstration. All summer he spent in the wheatfields near St. Louis, painting the hot sun on the yellow grain, the brawny bodies of the threshers. Eleven of these pictures were the main part of his show last week, again won Artist Jones loud applause from critics...