Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music. Farrar's popular Carmen lacked the finesse of many of her other roles. Mary Garden was not at her best in the part. Maria Jeritza failed to stand the test. Those who disliked Ponselle's performance last week did not damn her as a singing artist but rather as a melodramatic actress...
...Alfred Stieglitz, photographer and art dealer, last week gave over his bleak, hospital-like Manhattan gallery to the paintings of his best friend. A wrinkled, shock-headed little man of 65, John Marin looks like a disheveled version of the late Sir Henry Irving. Because a new book on Artist Marin has just been published,* because critics like Henry McBride, Lewis Mumford and Julius Meier-Graefe have put themselves on record as considering John Marin the greatest water-colorist in the U. S., it was an important exhibit...
...could find. Dealer Stieglitz did not think much of the etchings, but grew so excited about the water colors that he practically adopted John Marin there & then. Ever since, he has handled Marin's finances and all his pictures, never accepting a cent in commissions. To date the artist has produced some 800 works-oils, water colors, etchings. Record price for Marin water colors was reached in 1928, when one went for $6,100. Yet Dealer Stieglitz has let some go for as little as $100 apiece, provided he thought the purchaser a worthy person who could not afford...
...blobs of pure color splashed loosely on big sheets of crinkly paper are more suggestive of the sea, sky, ships and mountains than all the careful paintings of the same subjects inside gilt frames in a dozen academies. Gallery-goers last week made much of the fact that Artist Marin seemed to be turning more & more from his water colors to oils...
...hail our own Helen, the artist...