Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most bitter caricature of the Roosevelt Administration. In bright color but indifferent drawing, it appeared on a 4-by-8-ft. canvas last week in the Westchester Institute of Fine Arts at Tarrytown, N. Y. Entitled Nightmare of 1934, the work was signed Jere Miah II. The anonymous artist had great fun with a typewritten explanation of his picture that referred to mythological characters known as The Chief Mogul, Sheik Morgue En Taw, Har Rywa Llace, Sir Huge Onson, and Old Egghead...
...more disrespectful in paint than in print, Nightmare of 1934 proceeded at once to make lively news. In the exhibition's catalog Manhattan newshawks discovered that the playful Jere Miah had placed the initials P. W. A. after his name. Everyone wanted to know the identity of the ungrateful artist who could accept the New Deal's relief money with one hand while burlesquing it with the other. Crowds jammed the hall. Pink with excitement, President Charles Arthur Birch-Field of the West-Chester Institute had the Nightmare placed on a separate wall and charged 25¢ admission...
...this time Artist Jere Miah II refused to let his name be known, but emitted a series of pronouncements through President Birch-Field of the gallery. Most important was the fact that he had never been on the PWA rolls. The initials after his name, he said, meant "Poor White Artist." The only hint of his identity was a report that the artist was comparatively unknown, 35, tall, blond, separated from his wife and disgusted with the New Deal...
...where he has Uncle Sam on the cross," explained a spokesman. "Radical artists always put Labor on the cross. The thing is full of bourgeois ideology. No radical artist would have made fun of the domestic affairs of the Roosevelt family. The fellow is a bourgeois...
...years ago an artist who called herself Nura published a book for moppets in which illustrations of children with milky skins, large heads, solemn black eyes, faced blank pages. The moppets were supposed to fill in the blank pages with stories to accompany the illustrations. This week Nura published her second book. The Buttermilk Tree. This time Nura supplied the story as well as the illustrations...