Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoped." On the South portico of the White House the President's mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, surprised her son by presenting him with a portrait of herself wearing a black gown and a stole of sables. Present at the ceremony were only members of the household and the artist, Pole Tade Styka...
...artist doesn't want luxury. He can live well on $5,000. But the American artist has to rely on the American public. Foreign markets are closed to him. The answer is mass distribution...
...artist sells one picture every year at $5,000, that's all right. But suppose he sells ten at $1,000 each? That's better...
...collector, and you find a dealer." Modern Art brings forward for public inspection Mr. Craven's sincere belief and hope that an "explicitly native art" is now growing in the U. S. He finds indications of it in Muralist Thomas Benton (see cut), "one of the few living artists, in any department, with a first-rate mind.'' Says Critic Craven of this Missouri artist: "To the conservatives he is a Red; to the radicals he is a Chauvinist. His art is too specifically real, too deeply impregnated with what I shall risk calling the Collective American Spirit...
...excellent example of a transition novel, the typical bill-of-fare of a halfway house. Oldsters will not be amused or touched, while most members of the generation that still, with lessening confidence, calls itself young, will admit that The Unpossessed is a telling caricature, the work of an artist who will undoubtedly do even better. Miles and Margaret lived unhappily together. He wanted to love her but he had a New England conscience which was always shutting her out. In the end, when he persuaded her to prefer abortion to motherhood, it was he who was shut out. Jeffrey...