Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...limited to a small Brownie, until last Christmas when a friend gave her an inexpensive No. 616 Hawkeye camera with an F6.3 lens and portrait attachment. With the aid of some floodlight bulbs, she started making portraits of her friends at night. One Wallace M. Kelly, a neighboring artist, helped her with the composition. Margaret O'Daniel is the 3-year-old daughter of another neighbor...
Since the War, provincial art museums have burgeoned weedily throughout the U. S. Most of them, waiting for their permanent collections to grow, keep their galleries filled with loan exhibitions of modern paintings for which they pay the artists nothing. The average artist of any reputation generally has six or eight pictures making the museum rounds, seldom sells any. At the end of the season he is put to considerable expense fixing broken frames, patching cracked varnish, and otherwise repairing minor damages to his work...
Last May excitable President Bernard Karfiol of the Painters, Sculptors & Gravers proposed that his society boycott all museums that would not pay a monthly rental of 1% of the appraised valuation of the pictures exhibited. Such payments would probably bring the average exhibiting artist more than $100 a year, just about enough to meet repair expenses...
...conservative estimate of the show's total value. Gaping gallery-goers liked best three lush canvases by the father of French postcards, sensuous Francois Boucher (1703-70). Serious painters were most excited by the opportunity to see six first-rate canvases by Jean Honore Fragonard (1732-1806), an artist who antedated the Impressionists by almost a century in their passion for the effects of light and air on color. Other important numbers...
...tapestry paintings are very good things to do for an artist who has children to take care of. You see painting is continuous and more fluid than this sort of thing. You must sustain a mood. This can be picked up and put down at will. It is more precise and you must have time to think your effects out well ahead of time. It never used to hurt my eyes either, but I'm afraid it does a little now. I shan't do any more of them. I am appalled at the thought of the work...