Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snowy-thatched Speaker Henry T. Rainey died last year (TIME, Aug. 27, 1934). Last week's difficulties were due entirely to Widow Rainey's desire not to hurt anybody's feelings. One artist after another begged her permission to paint the official portrait. Kindhearted, she told each & every applicant to go ahead. Result: pictures of Speaker Rainey flooded the office of Chairman Keller until by last week there were ten in all. Nine of them, bearing a marked resemblance not only to the late Speaker but to each other, lined the Committee's office wall...
...Hugh Jones, gentlemen, was a rare artist. And his greatest work was "suae generis", an inimitable masterpiece, alone of its kind...
...your fourth article you speak of the opportunities at Cranbrook near Detroit to watch a celebrated sculptor work. Last year the students had an opportunity to watch Mr. Lewis Rubenstein, a young artist who is a recent graduate of Harvard, paint a fresco on the wall of a corridor in the Fogg Museum in the old Italian technique, and it is hoped that it will be possible to give students more such opportunities in the future than they have had in the past...
...make this statement a little farther on:--"At present the Fine Arts Department offers only one course--Fine Arts 1a--which is of any practical value to the artist." If you look down the List of Courses a little more carefully you will see several others such as 2a, 2c, 2d, 2e and others which are of practical value to the artist...
Coming to your constructive suggestions you suggest not only having the general cultural courses which we have, and the courses which are of value to the artist which we have, but having a general course which will take the place of four courses which are given new, and which will cover the whole field of art. The field of art is so immense that the professors in those four courses find it very hard to cover their respective fields in the amount of time they have; and to give in one course even a bird's eye view...