Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jean-Louis Forain is by no means the only artist Mr. Wiggin collects. He boasts the most-complete-in-the-world collections of three famed Scotch etchers: James McBey, Muirhead Bone, Sir David Young Cameron. Among his hundreds of miscellaneous prints is the famed "Hundred Guilder Print" of Rembrandt's "Christ Healing the Sick...
...went up on a twisted street in San Francisco's Chinatown. Scotti slunk down the steps from a rickety frame house and the performance could have stopped then & there. People started cheering. Orchestra musicians rose to their feet. Scotti, who through all his long career has remained an artist, took one brief, graceful bow, reverted quickly to Chim-Fen, the opium dealer. People forgot that the dark hollow voice was only a shell of what it used to be. Chim-Fen's sinister shadow filled the stage while he crept up on the child he wanted to kidnap...
...cost Montgomery Ward more than $1 per copy to publish its only method of salesmanship. A cover and four full-page illustrations by Artist M. Leone Bracker have been added. Copies for framing can be obtained for 15? each. Once Montgomery Ward offered to send a reproduction of its cover free. A hundred thousand people took them...
...fingerpainting a large sheet of wet glazed paper is spread flat on a marble or linoleum-covered table and big blobs of colorful sludge dropped on it. This is sloshed about with both hands, the finger nails, even the elbows, without conscious effort at drawing, until the amateur artist likes the result. The teacher is then called and the work given a name-"A Greedy Horse with a Long Neck," "Men Fishing Before They Are Drowned"-and the picture, the table and the child set aside to dry. Inventor Shaw is extremely proud of the fact that after one little...
Among the fingerpainters at last week's exhibition were Composer Deems Taylor's six-year-old daughter Joan, and six-year-old Tanya Bogoslovsky, daughter of Educator Boris Bogoslovsky. Artist Bogoslovsky's creation, a thing like a jungle of twisted vines, inspired her to her first poem, which was attached to the picture: There is a man lost in the dark woods. I keep finding him and finding him But he goes again behind the dark trees- Again and again...