Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engagements followed as a matter of course, but mostly in Negro schools and churches. In 1930 she gambled on a trip to Germany, studied intensively for a few months, finally hired a hall for $500. Critics then pronounced her a full-fledged artist, began to heap superlatives on her voice. Thereafter she toured widely in Europe. At the Salzburg Festival last summer Critic Herbert F. Peyser of the New York Times wrote of her as "one of the greatest living singers." Even with such praise she has remained levelheaded, happiest when with her own people. She could have been roundly...
Exuberantly the three make their way through England, recruiting from a London town-house Dennie Moore, a lady's maid with stage ambitions. They buy a van, tour the English coast towns, doing music-hall turns until they encounter Brian Aherne, an artist with whom Sylvia Scarlett falls in love. One day on the beach she slips out of her male attire, steals the dress of a girl in swimming, goes up to his house. What follows is one of those scenes which Miss Hepburn plays with her best intuition,, a scene in which a woman who has played...
Living in bourgeois simplicity in Cliffside, N. J. with his wife and 21-year-old son, Artist Marin gave himself the luxury of a private studio for the first time in his life two months ago. He knocked the partition out between two small rooms. Always wearing high, stiff collars, he goes fishing whenever possible, likes billiards and tinkering his ancient Chandler automobile. Art groups he studiously avoids, has no truck with young people who paint abstractions. The abstract quality in his own paintings he hints at in his titles. A picture is apt to be called not Stonington Harbor...
Different from the explosive genius of John Marin (see above), was another exhibit of landscapes which opened quietly this week at Manhattan's Kleemann Galleries : the first one-man show in seven years for Max Kuehne. Artist Kuehne's canvases hang in many museums. Year after year his etchings and lithographs have been listed in the various print societies' Best-Prints-of-the-Year selections. He once sold 32 pictures at a crack to Archer M. Huntington. He is one of the few U. S. painters whose works are included in the great collection of irascible Albert...
...people admiring the Kuehne landscapes inside the Kuehne frames last week , Artist Kuehne suddenly exhibited a carved and gilded rooster, a portrait head, remarked: "I also do sculpture...