Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clark. One by one her fellow members trotted into the school, peeked, generally condemned the painting for its ugliness, its nudity or both. Said Chairman Mrs. George Rounsaville: "The work is magnificent . . . but too ghastly for a school building." Last week she announced that her board would ask the artist to tone down his panel...
...Promptly Artist Katz retorted: "I would sooner risk my reputation as an honest artist than change that mural. The young generation demands facts and asks the artist not to flatter but to tell of life as it is. In that mural I expressed an ideal honestly and with all the powers of my background and training, and without any frivolity or monkey business...
Alice Stallknecht Wight of Chatham, Mass. is an artist who knows how to get her unskilled, matter-of-fact portraits into newspaper headlines. She paints her Cape Cod neighbors into a Biblical subject, gives the mural to Chatham's First Congregational Church which was founded in 1696 by a fisherman. Three years ago she did it with Christ Preaching to the Multitude, with a beardless, sneering Portuguese fisherman for Christ (TIME, Aug. 15, 1932). Last week she made more headlines when she gave First Congregational a companion piece called The Last Supper...
Last week Artist Wight, wife of a retired professor of Greek, refused to identify her model for Christ, apparently the Portuguese fisherman who appeared in her first picture. Of the others she said: "They posed with a literal seriousness that was very moving...
Scot J. Jeffrey Grant, 52, commercial artist, who pleased and comforted with conventional Gloucester fishing smacks and street scenes...