Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unprosperous artist, young Lawrence Saint worked in a wallpaper store in Pittsburgh's East End as "salesman, janitor and general pack-horse," was made color conscious by his merchandise. Against his father's advice, Lawrence Saint apprenticed himself to a stained glass artist, scrimped and saved to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. At this time a deep religious experience led him to join the Presbyterian Church, worry about the propriety of painting nude females. Ribald fellow students tied him up, carried him by force to a model's stand where an undraped woman...
...Cathedral's glass. Drawing on his exhaustive theoretical knowledge, Lawrence Saint tried to construct an oil-pressure glass furnace at Huntingdon Valley, got nothing more than a sinister blast of smoke & flame which alarmed his neighbors. Such technical difficulties were soon smoothed by professional advice, and Artist Saint successfully produced his first batch of colored glass. Gathering a hatful of samples, he hastened abroad to make a comparison with the glass in Chartres Cathedral. Perched on a teetering, 50-ft. ladder, Lawrence Saint held his own glass directly against the great Western windows, shouted for joy when he realized...
Thoroughly wedded to his work, Artist Saint is in his early 50's, likes to give studio visitors bits of brightly colored glass, potters nervously about his workrooms with sparse reddish hair on end and reddish-grey beard wagging, continuously jots down memoranda, hopes someday to "write the whole Bible in living colors," works with unceasing self-criticism to see that his craftsmanship is perfect, his meanings clear. With true medieval literalism, Artist Saint likes to use genuine prodigals for his Prodigal Sons, combs missions for repentant sinners when one is needed for a window...
...Artist Saint's seven sons include Sam, 24, writer, licensed pilot and glassmaker; Phil, 23, a '"cartoonist-evangelist" who last year contributed a religious comic strip to The Presbyterian Guardian (TIME, Oct. 28); and David ("Scelp"), 19, who blossomed out as a self-taught sculptor at 15. Most commercial member of the family is Xathanael ("Thanny"),11, who has a Philadelphia Bulletin paper route. Their mother & sister keep house, supervise some 30 meals...
Until last week, Philadelphia's museums showed no example of the work of Paul Cèzanne, famed French Impressionist. This embarrassing artistic deficiency was remedied when Manhattan's Dealer Paul Rosenberg and Director Fiske Kimball of Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Museum of Art got together on a landscape painted in 1904, two years before the artist's death. Dealer Rosenberg reasonably priced his Cèzanne at $40,000, knocked off 10% for spot cash...