Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge, 67, retired Manhattan banker, landscape artist, son of Painter John La Farge, brother of Architect Christopher Grant La Farge, Artist Bancel La Farge, Co-Editor John La Farge, S. J. of Jesuit America; in Manhattan...
With much ballyhoo, New York City's Municipal Art Committee last week opened its First National Exhibition of U. S. Art in Rockefeller Center's International Building. Arranged according to the artists' home States, some 700 paintings and 60 sculptures from 46 States, the District of Columbia and four territories hung on specially prepared walls of sea grass and plaster. For the preview dinner in Rockefeller Center's 65th story Rainbow Room, New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia rounded up a roomful of bigwigs, including New Jersey's Governor Harold Hoffman. Beefy Governor Hoffman...
Ablest, most vigorous painting in the show was in the North Central States section. Best known was Sleeping by Michigan's John Carroll. The model for this picture was Georgia Finckel, 27, whom Artist Carroll married last week in Columbus, Ohio. He called his frail, slant-eyed second wife the "inspiration" as well as the model for the murals he had just finished at Detroit's Institute of Arts...
...later he was back in Grand Rapids living on his family. The Grand Rapids Art Gallery hung a couple of his paintings and he sold a few water colors from a concession booth at Chicago's Century of Progress. Finally he realized that the only place for an artist was Manhattan...
...Students' League before the end of his second month. He did not want to be a little imitator. He and his roommate decided that what they needed was a studio on Washington Square. They got it, but that did not seem to make Rob Godfrey an artist either. Later he moved in with some friends. When they needed the spare bed for out-of-town guests he spent the night riding subways. Once he got a portrait commission, but he had no studio to paint in. Nonetheless he and Anneliese Conrad, a pretty little German girl who painted...