Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important frown he wears when "things in Washing- ton are going badly." She had not attempted to flatter Actress Katharine Cornell, wide of mouth, heavy of eyelid. There were two nudes because, Mrs. Mc-Cormick explained, "you can't have an exhibition without nudes." Amusing was what the artist called her "American Primitive"?a group, done from an old photo- graph and much resembling a colored tintype, of the late whiskered Joseph Medill, the Colonel as a boy of 16 his cousins Elinor ("Sissie") Patterson (now editor of the Washington Herald} and Joseph Medill Patterson, his late brother Medill...
Long before anyone was aware of her ability as an artist, Mrs. McCormick was recognized as an experienced horsewoman She is a Master of Hounds (the Du Page Hunt near her place at Wheaon), rides every day. In winter she and the Colonel go to Aiken where she hunts, he plays polo. Interested in other art work than her own, she has in her Chicago town house what is considered one of the finest collections of Moderns...
Vernon Carroll Porter, a commercial artist free-lancing for the past several years, had an idea two months ago: to set up an open-air market for painting in Washington Square (TIME, May 2). He routed out artists, interviewed house-owners along Washington Square. Single-handed he met and was set back by Park Commissioner Walter R. Herrick who quoted the City Charter: "It shall not be lawful to grant, use or occupy for the purposes of a public fair or exhibition any portion of any park, square or public place." Unable to dislodge Commissioner Herrick from the City Charter...
Selectmen can easily assume an injured attitude; that is probably what they do best. But now they have overstepped all bounds in resorting to boner law. They are preventing a free-lance student from also being a free-spade artist. While anthropologist Andrews merely insists that the bones are filed away in Peabody Museum, they insist that the bones are defiled. But Mr. Andrews seems fair to knock them for a ghoul. It is hinted that he plans to give the bones back since they are not good specimens anyway. The happy ending will be provided if Mr. Andrews offers...
Author Weaver sets considerable store by his hero, Don Slocum. "Men liked him. They never got over being surprised and charmed that here was an artist of recognized ability, who was, however, not in the least 'arty'; who dressed like themselves, except that perhaps his taste was a little better; who made a good living doing practical painting such as advertisements and illustrations, hoped to work into the creation of more lasting products, but did not go around apologizing or condemning the source of his present success-said nothing about 'cheapening' his art; who could hold...