Word: artistical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...larger implications the organization may be of even greater importance. No country can sustain an artistic development unless there is some patronage of living artists. With the tendency in the United States towards the complete subservience of current creation to admiration for works of the past, a complete artist stagnation is not beyond the range of possibility. The growth of such a society as the "Harvard Society for Contemporary Art" will do much to make such a condition impossible...
...whispered that Mr. Whiteman is endeavoring to reduce and that he has succeeded to the extend of 80 pounds. Whether or not this is in preparation for his debut as a silver screen artist was not accurately determined. The picture is to be a history of Mr. Whiteman and his orchestra, presented in the form of a story...
...eminent artist who is more interested in anthropology than art and who would rather converse about the ordinary enjoyments of life than about the technique of portrait work was revealed to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday during the course of an interview with Augustus E. John, famous English portrait painter who was recently elected to the Royal Academy and who is now in Boston doing a portrait of Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts...
...Young resents contracts, syndication and orders as to what ideas he shall draw. He has free-lanced for 35 years in Life, Puck, Judge, Metropolitan and many another magazine, past and present, rather than earn the "big money" that Arthur Brisbane once told him he deserved as a syndicate artist. It was natural, perhaps. that just after giving this advice, Editor Brisbane haggled with Mr. Young over prices. But it helps explain why Young was at his happiest contributing without pay to that ironic monthly of vast name and small circulation, The Masses. He was best paid when contributing ("Trees...
...sculptor once portrayed Art Young with one side of his face crying, the other side laughing. The object of both these emotions in Art Young is the world, not himself. About the latter he entertains chiefly a healthy curiosity, a self-respecting skepticism. Like most artists, he finds the money thing the most troublesome, but like few he has learned this general truth: "Nature never composes a scene just right for an artist. Even a mountain must be shifted to one side...