Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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brandt partly since much of his special study has been devoted to this master's etchings and drawings, but even more so since he feels that no artist touches life in a greater variety of aspects, and that his works offer an opportunity of discussing many general problems of artistic creation...
...Kent, Eugene Speicher, Horse-Painter A. J. Munnings, Dame Laura Knight, Dod Proctor, Art Theorist Roger Elliot Fry. Yet second prize went to one Alexander Brook of New York, third prize ($500) to Charles Dufresne of Paris. Since Picasso's portrait of his wife is not for sale, Artist Brook's still-life of a cat, three peaches, a begonia and a door brought him $2,000-the Albert C. Lehmann prize for the best purchasable painting. One artist who won no prizes but many a press notice was tousle-haired John Kane of Pittsburgh. Artist John Kane...
...Author. Artist-Author Milt Gross is famed for his monologs in the Bronx dialect, Nize Baby, Conversations in a Dumb Waiter, which first appeared in the Manhattan World. Since then his syndicated Sunday comic strip, Count Screwloose of Toulouse, has made him a nationally-advertised product. Short, dark, blue-eyed, curly-headed, he is lively, kindly, entertaining. He is married, has three children. Oct. 1 he left the World, became a Hearstman. Other books: Nize Baby, Hiawatta, Famous Fimmales from History...
...both sides of the continent critics and public now have a chance to judge the mature work of a painter who has become almost as essential to smart dinner table conversation as backgammon: Jose Clemente Orozco. Vibrant, intensely serious Artist Orozco is Mexican, of lineage from the 15th Century Conquistador es. One-armed, squarejawed, thickset, with glittering spectacles he looks not unlike an ecstatic bullfrog. In 1922, after a painful apprenticeship tinting postcards in California and drawing scathing cartoons in Mexico, he joined the famed Syndicate of Revolutionary Artists organized by Minister of Education Jose Vasconcelos.* Led by spectacular, pistol...
...view of Orozco is obtainable this week at the Metropolitan Museum, Manhattan. Two of his huge canvases are part of the loan exhibition of Mexican art circulated by the Carnegie Institute and the American Federation of Arts, sponsored by ex-Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow and Dr. Frederick A. Keppel. Artist Orozco himself is further downtown squatting on a scaffold in the new School of Social Research, painting great swirling designs on wet plaster with a very small brush. Beside him his master plasterer and assistant Juan Jorge Crespo, prepares the wall for Orozco to paint, two square yards...