Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were licking the smooth, bare bosom of a pensive goddess. On the left, a bisexual ogre with bulbous breasts was squeezing gold coins from the eye sockets of a skull. Horrified, Principal Johnson rang for the janitor, hung 80 yards of cheesecloth over the mural before his pupils arrived. Artist Katz kept on working. Under the cheesecloth a blind, muscular youth in rowing trunks took shape. The youth's left arm stretched toward the pensive goddess, who turned out to be the Mother of Compassion. His right arm faded into a scene of cruelty and destruction: machine gunners, cannon...
...Angeles school board was in a noteworthy dither of excitement over a mural which could be seen by anyone who cared to peek under a cheesecloth curtain in the entrance hall of the Frank Wiggins Trade School. The painting is the work of Leo Katz, a Viennese artist originally brought to the U. S. by Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip to paint the Vanderlip family. Artist Katz started the mural as a PWA project, finished it on his own time, working nights, Saturdays, Sundays. Like Rivera and Orozco, he drew his inspiration from Mexico but he avoided political subjects. His panels...
...Artist Clara Thomas became interested in art by looking into some of her husband's books on falconry. She has since painted office walls for Vincent Astor, Percy Rockefeller, Robert Rutherford McCormick, William Ziegler, the royal suite in London's Grosvenor House. Mother of two children, 17 and 12, a fair, blue-eyed little woman with an even smile, she looks scarcely 30 at 40. She likes stag parties at which she is the only woman, rides well, works hard, hunts...
Though the Piccirillis usually work together as "stone-masters," Attilio stands head and shoulders above his brothers as an individual artist. A classical conformist, he is a master of the human form. His figures have an impressive, if somewhat posed, nobility, and they are simply conceived and carried out. He designed Manhattan's imposing Maine Monument at Columbus Circle, its Firemen's Memorial on Riverside Drive, notable for its expressive woman & child group. One of his best works is the pediment on the Frick house in Manhattan, a poetic and satisfying solution of the problem of putting...
...Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM) for the fifth time in seven months, the third time in one week. Among the dead passengers on the Milan-Amsterdam plane were Louis Mariano Nesbitt, British mining engineer and author of Hell-Hole of Creation (i. e. Ethiopia), and Arthur George Watts, British artist and cartoonist...