Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Punch published a personification of the U. S. (called Brother Jonathan) as a young mischievous fellow with his thumb to his nose. In the U. S. the first cartoon of Uncle Sam appeared in the New York Lantern, comic weekly, of March 13, 1852 (see cut). The artist was F. Bellew. The scene called "Raising the Wind" was supposed to depict the struggle between a U. S. shipowner against the Cunard Company, with John Bull actively helping his line and Uncle Sam a more amiable onlooker. Bellew's figure gained wide popularity and was taken over by Thomas...
Scallawaggery received its punishment in a Chicago court last week. Some 20 years ago one Peter Grimes broke his leg at Waterloo, Iowa. He became young Dr. Joseph Ambrose Jerger's first case. Dr. Jerger mended the leg with metal plates and, a good artist, scratched his name on the plates. His fee was $500. Peter Grimes did not pay. Pleading poverty, he disappeared...
...battlefield as a background. There were modern British soldiers, gas masks, hand grenades and other impedimenta and it bore the imposing title "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?'' It brought him much publicity and many commissions. Feeling that there was a demand for this sort of thing, Artist Symons submitted another this year. It was called "My Lord I Meet in Every London Lane and Street." It included the figures of Jesus, St. Peter, St. John, the Holy Ghost, a perspective view of Tottenham Court Road, a steam roller, a baby Austin, a motorcycle, and about 100 assorted...
...long-suffering Sir William Llewellyn discovered that they were actually what many critics have called most Academy portraits: colored photographs. Sly Reginald had pasted tissue paper enlargements on canvas, colored them with oil paint. This was certainly not cricket! The pictures were thrown out, Reginald Eves was blackballed. Said Artist Eves...
Just after the doors were opened last week Artist Dod Proctor discovered that one of his wife's still-lifes had been hung upside down. But the most newsworthy picture that actually appeared on the R. A.'s walls was a biblical scene by small jockey-like Sir William ("Billy Orps") Orpen. Depicting the entry into Jerusalem, it was entitled by the artist and most morning papers "Christ Riding on the Ass." In the evening papers, in the official catalog it appeared as "Palm Sunday A. D. 33." It received the sort of press notice generally reserved for the opera...