Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emil Ganso has been called the artistic heir† of Jules Pascin (pronounced Pass-kin, born Pincas, first name unremembered, in Bulgaria of a Spanish-Jewish father and a Serbo-Italian mother) who slit his wrists and hanged himself on his Montmartre bedroom doorknob in 1930 (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931). Ganso was Pascin's star pupil. Pascin is still Ganso's model as an artist. Ganso paints and draws the same loose-hipped women, is partial to the same drooping, bulbous com position. Like Pascin, he makes a fetish of loyalty to his friends. Unlike Pascin, who hated...
...American Artists Professional League, long chafing at inroads of foreign artists on their trade, offered a $10 prize for a patriotic U. S. art slogan. Last week Commercial Artist Valentine Sandberg won the $10 but the League made a few changes. He had put his clarion call in a design of crossed artists' brushes. The League added a compass, a modeling tool and a crayon to symbolize all its members. And it changed Artist Sandberg's slogan, "Choose American Art" to "I Am For American Art," the design from a rectangle to an oval, the inscription "American Artists...
...months Manhattan artists have hungrily watched the International Music Hall in the northwest corner of Rockefeller Center, first unit to approach a state of polish and finish. Hearing rumors of a splendiferous interior, they waited for jobs. In April the architects announced: "Preference will be given the American artist." Last week U. S. decorator Donald Deskey was picked to design the interior of International Music Hall, world's largest theatre...
Married. Rockwell Kent III, 22, son of the artist; and one Margaret F. White of Cambridge; in Pittsfield, Mass...
Into a Montparnasse bar strode pear-shaped Paul Poiret, famed coutourier, wearing a light woolen jacket, black sash, Japanese peasant's hat. With him was Artist Guy Arnaud, Legion of Honor man. Two Englishwomen giggled at M. Poiret's costume. Offended for his friend. Artist Arnaud rebuked them: "Mesdames, you have insulted a genius." Up rose one James Clark, U. S. escort of the Englishwomen. "Monsieur," said he, "you have insulted two ladies." Legionnaire Arnaud challenged Clark to a duel with rapiers. Mr. Clark, demanding his right as the challenged party, stipulated fists. M. Arnaud replied that if Mr. Clark...