Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward Bruce is more notable as a landscape and mural artist than as a second-string New Dealer. While in Lon don he gave a one-man show at the swank Leicester Galleries which attracted more attention than the dreamy goings-on of the Conference in the Geological Museum (TIME, June 19). Last week Artist Bruce found himself in the happy position of being able to do something for other artists less well off than himself. When the scrabble for Civil Works Ad ministration money started in Washington Mr. Bruce went to President Roosevelt with the suggestion that some...
...decoration. Museum directors in every case headed the committees, but in those cities that had many museums the chairmanship seemed to fall to the curator who had the greatest sympathy for modernists. The New York Committee, which in the nature of things will have the greatest number of indigent artists to provide for, was viewed with greatest alarm. Smart Mrs. Juliana Force is the widow of a Manhattan dentist and longtime friend of Art Patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. As one of the first members of the Whitney Studio Club and Director of the Whitney Museum she probably knows as many...
...holidays the picture presented great problems to match great possibilities. To begin with, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass had to be telescoped into one script. A cast of Big Names had to be assembled for publicity purposes and yet a Nobody had to play Alice. Artist John Tenniel's familiar characters had to be imitated if not exactly copied. And finally the screen production had to stand comparison with Eva Le Gallienne's excellent stage adaptation for her Civic Repertory Theatre. When Alice in Wonderland was released this week simultaneously in 120 cities throughout...
...Swedish Anders Zorn of the late Henry Clay Pierce, St. Louis oilman, whose Brule, Wis. estate was Calvin Coolidge's summer home in 1928. Angered because he thought the portrait made him look ungainly, Oilman Pierce demanded numerous alterations, finally refused to accept or pay for the picture. Artist Zorn sued, collected $13,200. On the auction block, the portrait fetched...
...head and shoulders, badly burned, resting on a blazing armchair. Friends said he was a constant and careless smoker, burned holes in pajamas, dressing gowns, bedcovers. An autopsy revealed that he was intoxicated when he died. Like the late Robert W. Chambers (see below), Author Vance was a onetime artist, a prodigiously prolific writer, a scorner of "literature...