Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late famed Joseph Pennell used to say that an etcher who did not print his own plates was not an artist but a manufacturer. The collector sees but half the beauty in a Whistler etching until he realizes how elegant Jimmy deepened his blacks by rebiting with stronger acid, lightened unnecessary lines by brushing them with varnish...
NOYES (Alfred) The Elfin Artist and Other Poems...
...modern art in the U. S., one of the greatest in the world. Dr. Barnes is no rich dunce with a fondness for pretty pictures. To occupy the spare time of his little factory staff he gave a course of lectures, assisted by his friend, Philosopher John Dewey. Since Artist William Glackens first got him interested in painting, he has traveled widely, read voraciously. His book The Art in Painting is a standard work on modern art. Dealers fear and respect him. Dr. Barnes can make the reputation of any artist by buying his work...
...Joan is now in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington. As children Bernard and his brother Roger, now a writer, posed for that panel for hours in doublet & hose.* One of their most vivid childish recollections is the old copper tycoon's glittering gold teeth. As an artist, Bernard Boutet de Monvel absorbed everything but his father's sly sense of humor. Fifty years old. almost theatrically handsome, his life sounds like the day dreams of a Harvard freshman. During the War he served with distinction as an aviator in France, Macedonia. Morocco, where he had time...
Early last week a pretty, black-haired, 17-year-old girl from Vienna played a Chopin polonaise in the lounge of the S. S. Samaria to convince immigration officer, that she was qualified to enter the U. S. as an artist. News columns headlined the story but few people took account of it until a few days later when she made her formal U. S. concert debut in Manhattan's Town Hall. Then people who heard her went wild with enthusiasm. Poldi Mildner played at a terrific, breath-taking pace, with a force and authority which few women pianists...