Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatest surprise was the award of the $1,500 first prize to France's André Dunoyer de Segonzac for a sketchy landscape of St. Tropez. Painter de Segonzac, 49, is an important artist, has won the gratitude of Riviera realtors by first discovering the possibilities of the Gulf of St. Tropez in 1906. But few critics could find anything in this particular canvas to lift it above any one of 30 or 40 others in the show...
...from his best work is Henry Varnum Poor's canvas, "March Sun" showing two girls and a towheaded child drowsing round a table in the bright light of a window, yet in its drawing and color it shows how far Artist Poor has advanced since the time several years ago when he gave up painting, as he thought for good, to retire to the country, build his own home, and mold, fire and glaze tiles, vases and urns that won him the reputation of the country's greatest potter. Richer Poor canvases were on view...
Wilbur--"The Woman of Bronze." Gladys George saves a serious play about a temperamental artist from being ridiculous...
...scene is laid "not far from Boston." The Haggett family is a group of characteristic Yankee types, with, of course, their contrast of weakness and virtue. Some paintings which have been left them by an impoverished artist are suddenly found to be worth thousands of dollars. This discovery overwhelms the different members of the family. Impelled by greed they catch themselves in ugly conspiracies that would have ordinarily shocked them. The central character is Abby, the Haggett's maid of all work, who keeps her perspective as well as her rights in the helter skelter scramble to get hold...
ROCKWELLKENTIANA-Rockwell Kent- Har court, Brace ($3.75). "Few words and many pictures" by the most popular U. S. artist-illustrator...