Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Artist Hoover was born 27 years ago in Cuba, N. Y. where her father, a civil engineer, was laying railroad track. Part of her childhood she spent in the town of Snow Shoe, Pa. In Washington, D. C. she used to attend art classes at the Corcoran Art School but her real ambition was to be a ballet dancer. Just out of high school she won a beauty contest, and in the ensuing years did almost everything from performing in the Vanities and dancing in a Coney Island hotel to teaching swimming at a girls' camp and operating...
...great friend of Madrid's Socialist Boss Indalecio Prieto, had just been commissioned to do a series of enormous murals in the Casa del Pueblo and the University. Knowing nothing about Mary Hoover except that she ate well and drank well, Artist Quintanilla took her on as his assistant, taught her to paint in fresco, kept her slaving on a scaffold all summer long...
...murals finished, Artist Hoover went off to the squids fishermen and olive growers of Ibiza. There she stayed two years, painting all day, playing bridge and drinking local absinthe at night. When she returned to Madrid last October, a revolution was going full blast, the streets were raked with machine-gun fire and the conservatives had locked up her old teacher as a Socialist conspirator, threatened to keep him in jail for 19 years (TIME, Dec. 3). The effect was about the same as if the Republicans should seize the Washington Government, throw Artist Bruce into a cell...
Gaugin was the third and last artist in the present series of displays. The "Tahitian Idyll" admirably represents his style, largely developed during his life in the South Seas. The break with the Impressionistic influence of his early period, his indebtedness to Egyptian art, as well as his habits of composition are clearly represented in this work. Notwithstanding the influence that his technique has had, it was his greatest triumph to suggest that the function of art need not be to copy nature...
...Littell, president of Chicago's R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press). It showed a gaunt, pinfeathered Plymouth Rock cockerel rising in the faint light of early dawn between his plump parents for his first lusty crow (see cut). The drawing was made in 1933. Recently Artist Wood's good friend and competitor, Thomas Benton, saw it, grew hugely excited, wrote Grant Wood that if he did not make a painting of it at once, Benton would do a picture on the same subject. Adolescence will probably be Wood's next painting...