Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lime Rock, Conn., Winslow Wilson painted two moppets called The Mora Children, heard his picture would have the place of honor at the annual art show. Opening day, Painter George Glenn Newell's cow picture Clear and Cold had the best place. Furious, Artist Wilson tore down the cow picture, hung up his own. Hour later the cow picture was back. Portraitist Wilson, with canvas, rushed away, opened a competing one-man one-picture show in an empty 18-room house, challenged Cow Painter Newell to a duel with canvas and brush, promised a $100,000 suit...
...level." constitute the subject matter of this large flat tome. "After clue deliberation and many consultations with our publisher," say Collaborators Soglow and Plotkin. ''we have arrived at the conclusion that the Depression must go." The result is an original opus instead of a collection of Artist Soglow's previously published pictures from the New Yorker and the New Classes. The Little King appears only once. Other persons and places are new, if vaguely familiar...
...Woodruffs are already there when the Crawfords come up?Jack Crawford, successful commercial artist; Susannah, his silent, handsome, able wife and their daughter Judith, turning 17, a modern, vivacious youngster. Prissy, gossipy Mrs. Nettleton and her sister Miss Kitty are looking forward to the summer, as is Fred Bratton who works for Mr. Leverett, owner of "The Poplars," and whose wife is expecting her twelfth. There is the old sculptor, Stirling, always welcome. It looks like a good summer among friends. Nor would Rita Woodruff's affair with the Polish boy who sings weird songs, or the youthful infatuation...
Between love affairs Dolores was duped into a bogus marriage with an Egyptian magician, known in the music halls as Osiris, who deserted her. Her other husbands were Capt. Harry Sadler and George Livermore, both of whom had to divorce her. After the suicide of Artist Atkinson she appeared briefly in a melodrama based on her own career, and wrote her autobiography. Excerpt...
...last of Whistler's surviving friends and pupils. Said this etcher and watercolorist, amid the cucumbers and carnations of his Berkshire truck garden : "The curious thing about Whistler was that he was simply no good at the technical side of his job. Even his best-known picture, The Artist's Mother, is fading rapidly. ... He hardly ever talked to us of America except to tell us of his experiences as a midshipman or whatever they call it in the American Navy at West Point.* On one occasion I remember his telling us of his greatest feat as a midshipman when...