Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...success, the Louvre, greatest art museum in the world, magnanimously postponed its own projected Degas show, lent three important canvases. These with the rest of the borrowed works put something on the wall for every type of art lover. In portraits there was the sensitive picture of the artist's young brother, Achille, as a gold-laced aspirant in the French Navy. In sporting pictures there was the vividly painted False Start lent by John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. For print collectors there was the fine etching of Degas friend and pupil, Mary Cassatt in the Louvre. For balletomanes there...
Proud of their aristocratic background, Artist Degas' family always spelled the name De Gas. His half-Italian father was a moderately rich banker who went to Paris about the year 1800 to open a branch of the family's Neapolitan banking house. His mother (Adele Musson) was born in the U. S.; her brother Michel ran a cotton brokerage business in New Orleans. Edgar Degas started as a well-intentioned student. Ingres was his life-long ideal, but lessons from a pupil of a pupil of Ingres was as close as he could come...
Edgar Degas lived to be 83, grew to be as cantankerous as Whistler, morbidly jealous of the success of younger men, but in his younger days the suave and sociable Manet was one of his best friends. Because of this friendship Degas, already an established artist, showed his pictures in the famed first exhibition of the Impressionists in 1874, was infuriated for the rest of his life when critics continued to call him an Impressionist. Painting outdoors gave him a cold in the head. He could not understand the experiments with broken light of Monet and Pissarro. All Degas...
...automobile up a railroad track; awards for diction and genius, respectively, to Actress Ina Claire and Playwright Eugene O'Neill; and the exhumation in California for reburial in their homeland of twelve tons of Chinese cadavers. Eye- worthy also (and a news beat) was a skyscape drawn by Artist F. R. Paul to show what levels will be traversed by Transcontinental & Western Air's proposed "Overweather" plane which is to fly sealed at around...
...color spread unprecedented in a 10? magazine, LIFE gave its readers three pages of prints from the work of Kansas' John Steuart Curry. In brilliant, accurate reproduction were seen the famed U. S. artist's Line Storm, bad weather brooding on a wide Western landscape; Tornado Over Kansas, in which a family tumble into their storm cellar; Sanctuary, which shows farm animals huddling from a flood on an islet; and two of Mr. Curry's celebrated circus paintings: Elephants and The Flying Codonas...