Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bald, flute-playing Artist Rockwell Kent last week rushed excitedly into the Weyhe Gallery, his Manhattan dealers, with two rolls of scraped sealskin and a story: he had discovered the greatest of Eskimo artists, he had two examples of his work to prove...
...there is another Eskimo that can draw half as well," said Artist Kent, "I don't know of his existence. I know for a fact that nothing produced in Greenland is even comparable. Ranking with all comers he certainly is one of the foremost of artists who have drawn in the North. On more specific grounds I would cite for their special excellence his perspective, his action, his strong sense of both the pictorial and dramatic impact, and above all, the values in his comprehensive epic of Eskimo life...
...Artist Kent's protege is a 25-year-old Alaskan named George Aden Ahgupuk, better known as Twok. As a child in a mission school in northwestern Alaska he was in constant hot water with his teachers for covering valuable sheets of paper with walruses, kyacks, reindeer and seagulls, but Eskimo Twok never thought of being a professional artist until a hunting accident put him in a hospital for a year, left him crippled for life. Twok moved to Noorvik, Alaska, began drawing the daily life of his people on sheets of reindeer and sealskin parchment that he scraped...
Among the most valued paintings received was the "Visitation" by El Greco, one of the most unusual examples of this artist's works, the gift of an anonymous donor. To the collection of Florentine paintings three 14th century canvases were added by Miss Margaret Whitney, of Milbrook, N. Y. the water color collection was increased by a large group painted by Dr. Denman W. Ross and some of his pupils, and by a late work of Winslow Homer...
...policy, as is his prerogative, and damning it as a fraud and a delusion, the spectator has no where to turn. For certainly "Rembrandt" is not a great picture. Laughton, overimpressed with his own impressiveness, talks in a whisper that makes flesh creep, while the whole theme of the artist's life seems too simple for him and yet too deep, and it evades the hand of the actor as a consequence. Nevertheless, with fine support from Gertrude Lawrence and Elsa Lanchester, the picture does give an idea of the tragedy of Remrandt's life and an insight into...