Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nickname from his childhood passion for modeling in beeswax?was born in Wisconsin in 1872 of German immigrant parents. He was apprenticed to a watchmaker at 15, became a jewelry engraver shortly after, went to New York, then to Paris to study, returned, worked for years as a commercial artist and calendar designer. All this time he continued his passion for minuscule modeling. He liked dainty things. He modeled tiny little figures (generally with the aid of a reading glass) and studied chemistry and physics to try to discover again how the jewelers of the Renaissance were able to cast...
Died, William Jacob Holland, 84. butterfly man, director emeritus of Carnegie Institute; of a stroke; in Pittsburgh. Author (the definitive Butterfly Book), paleontologist (specialties: diplodocus, dinosaur), zoologist, explorer, museum administration expert, artist, teacher, clergyman, "he knew everything about so many things that [he] . . . may well cause special wonder...
Many an uneasy debutant has blurred the beginning of his Town Hall recital. Singer Smith attacked his first notes so nervously and late that he had to signal to the orchestra to start over again. But with his second attempt he had mastered his vocal powers like a seasoned artist. Manfully he proceeded to display a firm, dark-hued tenor voice. It had no great volume, no ringing top notes. It had evidently been strained, misused. His sunken chest and relaxed abdomen were witnesses of faulty breathing which must have gone on for years. But the tones of his middle...
...London, smart art is shown in the Leicester Galleries. During the season its walls burgeon with the works of socialite portraitists, sporting artists, caricaturists, sculptors. For an artist, a show at the Leicester is like making a good club. Last week the Leicester Galleries gave the first British showing of the wash drawings of Curtis Arnoux Peters, the New Yorker's slick, sexy "Peter Arno." The show was reviewed by that stuffiest of papers, the ultra-conservative Morning Post which promptly compared Arno's work to the line drawings in Punch. All honors went to Artist Arno. Wrote...
...years Artist Leon Gordon has had the studio next to Gari Melchers' in New York. He wrote...