Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Artist Duncan, who lives in San Francisco, is far from unknown to western advertisers. A director of the potent McCann-Erickson Advertising Agency, he is a strict office disciplinarian, a busy executive, and though he has finished no commercial drawings for 20 years, he still makes layouts and rough sketches for Del Monte Peaches and Standard Oil of California. For five years he served with Herbert Hoover on the San Francisco Art Commission, has exhibited frequently in West Coast shows...
...avoid unnecessary rivalries, the Metropolitan's exhibition contained the work of no living artist, which led to one curious result: in all these pictures of a form of art which holds accuracy and fidelity to nature a chief essential, there was only one picture of a horse really galloping...
Died. Sir Guy Standing, 63, versatile British actor; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. He commanded a destroyer in the War, was knighted for service with the British War Mission to the U. S. in 1918. A talented pianist and marine artist, he had not been well since a Black Widow spider bit him during the filming of Lives of a Bengal Lancer...
Other works are by Robert Nanteuil, one of the foremost French artists of the seventeenth century, Stephano Della Bella, an Italian etcher, Vaillant, a less familiar French artist, and Jose Ribera, a Spaniard...
...press the collection of mysterious objects made of bits of wire, scraps of bright tin, cardboard, wood and strips of felt which, with a grinding of toy gears and hum of little electric motors, bounced and joggled, slithered and woggled in the Manhattan Gallery of Pierre Matisse. Artist Calder called them his "Mobiles." Other abstractions in bent wire and wood that did not move were called "Stabiles." Gallery-goers found them strangely exciting...