Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduate, Jacob Heminway, who received his degree in 1704. With no description of the gentleman in exis-life. Kirby's opinion that Heminway was a "bigoted, self-centered, stern old Puritan" is said to be confirmed by the fact that in later life "he cut off his tence, the artist, Donald Kirby, is "synthesizing" his features from available scraps of information regarding his only daughter without a penny because she had married an Episcopalian...
...encountered on the first floor in the form of a gigantic portrait of beefy, bewhiskered Henry Hobson Richardson (see p. 29) and an exhibition of that architect's work. The second floor was given over entirely to the flaming posters of A. Mouron Cassandre, French advertising artist who produced the chunky little man who drinks Dubonnet all over the world. Only those long of wind and strong of purpose who clumped up to the third and fourth floors were rewarded with the sight of 127 paintings, water colors and drawings by most of the best known names in modern...
...famed Armory Show of 1913, held in Manhattan's 69th Regiment Armory, which introduced modern French painting to the U. S. President and guiding spirit of the Armory Show was the gentle and reserved Arthur B. Davies, painter of ethereal nudes, wearer of excruciatingly stiff collars. Artist Davies was a great & good friend of Miss Lizzie Bliss. Before the exhibition closed he had persuaded Miss Bliss to buy a Renoir, two Degas and two Redons. Through her friend Mrs. Rockefeller also became interested in modern art, finally began to buy canvases and drawings pointed...
There are far more drawings and water colors than oils in Mrs. Rockefeller's collection. This has little to do with the fact that drawings are cheaper than paintings. All artists know that the best way to study the manner and character of an artist is through his unretouched drawings. And drawings take up little room. Most of the pictures that Mrs. Rockefeller has bought for her own enjoyment are crowded into her specially lighted gallery on the seventh floor of the old Rockefeller town house in West 54th Street...
...week, glanced at his program, nodded to his accompanist, pursed up his lips and proceeded to whistle. The Philadelphians had been fairly warned. Andrew Garth was serious about his whistling. Oldtime vaudevillians could make a living imitating canaries or mocking mocking birds. Andrew Garth was appearing as a concert artist, ambitious enough to undertake the Mad Scene from Lucia, a Schubert sonatina, the first-act love music from Wagner's Die Walkiire in which he took turns at being the orchestra, Sieglinde, the soprano, and Siegmund, the heroic tenor...