Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contribution to productive scholarship? Will it ever go out to the library shelves of the land and attract bright young western scholars to Dartmouth who can help to make it a truly national university? There is fortunately no indication that Harvard will ever recognize, much less patronize, a living artist...
...paid him by Satevepost for that cartoon looked exceedingly good to Carl Anderson, but the new character he had drawn for the first time looked even better. Henry's personality appealed to him. The very name somehow seemed ideal. Artist Anderson concentrated on Henry, perfected the simple lines of his domed head, big ears, full cheeks, skinny neck. Eyes, nose & mouth, indicated by circles and dots, formed an expression of sublime self-assurance, competence, unconcern. Henry, according to his maker, was not really bald; he Jiad just had all his hair shaved...
Rare indeed is the quick rise to fame and fortune to match Henry's. And practically unknown to the modern newspaper public is Henry's creator. Artist Carl Anderson, who has been plugging away over a drawing board for more than 40 years, will be 70 next week. Born in Madison, two months before Lincoln was assassinated, he first worked in his Norwegian father's planing mill. Learning the carpenter's trade, Son Carl in his early 20's took to the road, drifted to Omaha, San Francisco, Seattle, where he worked until...
...Madison, Bachelor Anderson lives with three sisters in a house his father built near Lake Mendota. A brother, Isaac, is on the New York Times Book Review staff. Artist Anderson gets many a Henry idea from watching moppets in the streets. Big-framed, grey, mild, plain as homespun, he looks and talks like a Norwegian woodworker, lacks the jargon of the comic-stripper. For fun he goes to a carpenter's bench in his house, turns out odd pieces of woodwork. A child's desk of his design is marketed in Milwaukee for about...
Last week Artist Anderson was in Manhattan, bewildered by the fuss made over him, wrestling with the job of making Henry act funny seven days a week. One thing eased that task: Though Henry remains for the most part as mute as ever, his companions in the newspaper strip may talk...