Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High over San Francisco's Golden Gate during last week's western war games, Flyer-Artist Clayton Knight sketched the position of two "enemy submarines" driving toward the metropolis. He handed the chart to Lieut. Haydn P. Roberts, radio engineer, who inserted it in a cylindrical machine. Forty seven seconds later the drawing was reproduced in a receiving device at Mather Field, 75 mi. away, whence a squadron of bombers was sent to destroy the invaders. While the picture was being transmitted, Flyer-Artist Knight conversed with ground officers, elaborated on the scene. Based on a principle akin to telephotography...
Modest and mannerly was the annual May exhibition of local artists which opened last week in Cleveland. The crowds were modish, social and enthusiastic; the pictures were mostly recognizable subjects pleasantly painted. A careful jury did not favor either of the two exhibited nudes, nor the several strange modernisms. Clarence H. Carter took a first in the landscape class with Lake Erie Patterns, a conservative work pleasantly demonstrating shade-and-shadow effects on a greensward. Mr. Carter also won the figure-composition first prize with his Ezra Davenport, a portrait of a stolid York-state farmer. Second in this category...
Last week marked the end of a contest for a new definition of art. Sponsor: the Halton Endowment for Girls, Inc. (hospital beds for working girls) of Manhattan. Judges: Funnyman Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Editor Mary Fanton Roberts of Arts & Decoration, Artist Randall Davey. Prize: ($100). Winner: Mrs. John Sloan, plump wife of famed Painter-Teacher John Sloan of Manhattan, President of the Society of Independent Artists. Mrs. Sloan's definition was publicly pronounced during the fifth annual "Carnival of Imagination," a benefit ball and pageant for the Halton Endowment. Clad in ruffles and a Spanish mantilla, Mrs. Sloan appeared...
Louis C. M. Reed, artist: "Art is yearning done in matter...
Carl Brandt, artist: "Art is that subject of conversation which was made demode first by the advent of Prohibition and second by the unpleasantness in Wall Street...