Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought him smartly to attention, soon sent him angrily scurrying for pen and paper. The picture in the Evening Star was that of a painting intended for the current Public Works of Art Project exhibition in Washington's Corcoran Gallery. Its title: The Fleet's In. Its artist: 29-year-old Paul Cadmus of Manhattan. Its subject: drunken sailors and bawds carousing on Manhattan's Riverside Drive...
Died. Sir Gerald du Maurier, 61, actor, manager, son of the late Artist & Novelist George du Maurier (Trilby, Peter Ibbetson); following an operation for an internal disorder; in London. In 1896 Sir Gerald made his only trip to the U. S. with Beerbohm Tree, acted in Hamlet, Henry IV, Trilby. In England he became one of the most famed actors of the land, played in Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton, Brewster's Millions, Bulldog Drummond, Alias Jimmy Valentine, Arsene Lupin. He was knighted in 1922. Lately he acted in the cinema. His last part: a French valet in Catherine...
...artist who lived by his art was one of the few desirable by-products of the capitalistic scheme. When that scheme suffered its recent noisy break-down and was replaced by the Initials Plan, the CWA did not fail to extend its benevolence to creative geniuses in the arts who were faced with starvation when the market for their products, like that for wheat, coal, and rubber, failed. Like the Medici, like Henry VIII, like Riche-lieu, a sovereign people undertook to subsidize bona fide creators...
...pupil Raffet, echoed by wood-engravings of these masters, show the Napoleonic Legend. The comparison is instructive; the visitor directing his glance from a page of Nodier's "Portes de Fer" to a lithograph of the Napoleonic army is readily convinced of the small interest the Romantic artist took in the means of art. Much more important was the final effect...
...This impression, one of seven known proofs, is also tent by Mr. Allen. Finally, an interesting comparison of Daumier and Gavarni is afforded by the juxtaposition of similar compositions. In this way the visitor is shown in dramatic fashion the similarities and the characteristics of the two leading journalistic artists; the general point of view of the period and the specific vision of the artist...