Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Artist Frederick Judd Waugh, Pittsburgh's favorite, is neither unknown, unrecognized nor impoverished. At 73 he is lean and fox-bearded and his dealers, Manhattan's Grand Central Galleries, are proud of him as one of their best sellers. He paints about 75 canvases a year?mostly marines?sells them for from $400 to $2,500 apiece...
...many years the talented Waugh family has lived in Provincetown, Mass. Son Coulton is a ship painter & illustrator and nautical expert. Daughter Gwenyth, a costume designer, is married to Artist James Floyd Clymer. The combined Waughs own 13 houses in Provincetown, operate on a section of Main Street known as Waughville, the Ship Model Shop, the Hooked Rug Shop & Hookery. As a hobby Artist Waugh likes carpentry, gardening and making souvenir boxes of sea shells. His prides are a pâpiermaché castle he once built for his children and a chandelier made of old whale bones...
...Whitney biennial has no jury, no admissions committee. Autocratically it invites each U. S. artist whom it considers worthy of the honor to submit the canvas that he considers most typical of his recent work. Though no prizes are given the show is not without its rewards, because the museum has set aside a fund ot $20,000 to buy pictures for its own collection. Almost all the other canvases are for sale...
...Lord Blesses the Bishop (by Hatcher Hughes; Glen W. McNaughton, producer). Professor Hughes of Columbia University won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize with Hell-bent for Heaven. The Professor's current opus is about a sophisticated artist who wants a baby, while his wife is only interested in amateur theatricals. The artist has the baby by an obliging French girl, an act which his wife takes with thoroughgoing good sportsmanship. Professor Hughes, in all probability, will not win the 1935 Pulitzer Prize with The Lord Blesses the Bishop...
...Bacon is little known to the U. S. at large, Manhattan intelligentsiacs have for years oh-ed and ahed in front of her malicious black-&-white portraits. Like all good caricaturists, her bite is worse than her bark. This collection of 39 caricatures of prominent U. S. figures shows Artist Bacon at her best, her victims at their worst. A literate craftswoman (she versifies with skill), Artist Bacon supplements her sketches with verbal notes, sometimes as acidly to the point as the finished drawing. Some of them...