Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit. Artist who has spent the most time with the most success portraying Detroit is a Philadelphian?Charles Sheeler. Commissioned by Edsel Ford in 1927 to do a series of paintings of the Ford River Rouge plant, Painter Sheele turned out a series of meticulous, exact canvases that in black and white reproductions are almost indistinguishable from Photographer Sheeler's excellent camera studies of similar subjects. In spite of objecting to his photographic technique, most critics allow Sheeler a top place among U. S. painters of industrial scenes. Michigan's nearest approach to catching the U. S. scene in paint...
Boston remains conservative. Ten years ago Artists Harley Perkins, Charles Hovey Pepper and Carl G. Cutler started a minor revolt against what they called the "Museum [of Fine Arts ] School" which was then turning out replicas of John Singer Sargent. The revolt sagged. Today Boston's best artist concerned with the contemporary U. S. scene is Molly Luce, wife of Alan Burroughs. X-ray art researcher for Harvard's Fogg Museum...
...years, to conduct 90 concerts a year at $800 a concert. . . . But after signing the 10-year contract, he began raising doubts each spring as to whether he would return in the fall, contract or no contract. So, each spring, the board, agreeing he was a great artist, gave him more money, despite the contract, until in 1929 he was getting $2,000 a concert for 55 concerts a season or $110,000 a year...
...manufacturers like Rabkin, and Chicago's D. Gottlieb & Co., Bally Manufacturing Co., Genco, Inc., and Rockola Manufacturing Co., are never at a loss for new ideas. Last week Mr. Rabkin's staff of artists and engineers were busy on a pin game checker board in red, gold and black with bulbous gold clouds from which issue silver thunderbolts. Before it is released this week or next the final drawings will be submitted to a commercial artist for advice. The firm's own designers, says Mr. Rabkin, get so wrought up over each new creation that they...
...midst of the turmoil Stokowski played a Christmas Fantasy by young Ann Wyeth, daughter of Artist Newell Convers Wyeth, famed for his illustrations of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Last of the Mohicans, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Philadelphia critics usually refrain from appraising the youthful talent which Stokowski presents. Miss Wyeth described her piece as "an expression of my personal reactions to Christmas day in our home : a weaving together of the solemn spirit of Christ's birthday with the festivities of a family holiday...