Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Popularly accepted is the story that in Paris he saw an artist pay high prices for back numbers of a newspaper mentioning an exhibition of his works. In London Brother Henry sought out one Curtice, a large newsdealer, convinced him that he could reap profits from the back numbers of publications which were left on his hands every day. Together they formed Romeike & Curtice, a clipping service which continues in the hands of Curtice's heirs. In 1884 Brother Henry opened shop in the old Judge Building in lower Manhattan. Practically from the start the business prospered...
Reporters leaped for their hats, photographers jumped for their cameras, Artist Zdzislaw Czermanski was routed from his hotel room. A fleet of honking taxis bore down on 57th Street. Reporters reached the galleries just as the grey-haired Polish politico-pianist departed in a pale blue swirl of burnt gasoline. The perspiring assemblage was left to admire the pictures...
...moved to Paris to live. L'Illustration printed several of his Paris street scenes. British editors were entranced. He went to London to make a series of drawings for the Graphic. In January FORTUNE imported him to the U. S. to depict political and financial leaders. Artist Czermanski speaks no English, converses in firmly Slavic French. Even so he finds New Yorkers sympathetic, far easier to know than either Londoners or Parisians...
Picture Artist Gallery...
Horatio Walker, artist, LL.D...