Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary U. S. citizen were given a blank check and told to go out and buy, according to his own taste, a new painting by a U. S. artist, he would probably pass up the works of Benton, Curry, Wood, Kroll and Speicher, invest in a seascape by Frederick Judd Waugh. Later he would be considerably surprised to learn that the Bentons, the Currys, the Woods, the Krolls and the Speichers all looked disdainfully down their artistic noses at Oldster Waugh (pronounced Waw). Last week for the second successive year Artist Waugh won the $200 prize for the most popular...
...wood, gentle soul!--warm friends about, the treasures of the past at one's finger tips--and a sensitive mind to feel the world--'tis all so easy to warm one's toes and say: "The purpose of life is to live!" Live, mind you, as an artist paints a picture--not modernistic, if you please--harmoniously, a little color here and there, purposively, and as omits the fancy, in contemplation...
...credited with establishing the Department on the firm ground it rests upon today. Accepted as a valuable, even indispensable division of the University now, apparently there were tremendous obstacles in the path of its far-seeing founders. "Even so great a man as Francis Parkman," says Spalding, "an artist in his own sphere, is said to have been fond of exclaiming in Corporation meetings, after reading the annual budget, "Musica delenda...
...troops have been able to send no first-hand news at all in eight weeks of warfare. Marshal Badoglio's order last week meant that all the elaborate mechanism of the international Press will take more time to tell the world less than did Editor Horace Greeley or Artist-Correspondent Winslow Homer, back of Manassas...
...thought made no difference to the general public. It swept into the gallery in droves, gaped at slick prettified likenesses of Will Rogers, William Randolph Hearst, Richard Barthelmess, Eddie Rickenbacker, and James Aloysius Farley, lingered longest over lush, sleek-hipped nudes in the yellow marble lobby. Five years ago Artist Christy got a thousand or so dollars for a portrait. Today he charges his sitters...