Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yorker readers, "Small Fry" is a cherished pictorial department which week after week hits off the doings of tough, disdainful little tots. The artist, William Steig, is in sympathy with his characters in that he hated to grow up, still does. A quiet young man with lazy, stone-blue eyes, a wide grin and upstanding stiff brown hair, Steig at 31 looks about as he did when he went to Public School No. 53, in The Bronx. Little boys, he believes, "are not as quickly socially-conditioned as little girls and obviously not as artificial as adults. They furnish...
...National Academy of Design, where he went for two-and-a-half years when young, purely to stall off a career, Artist Steig got all his fun playing football in the back yard. The dead hand of the academy certainly guided none of his carving. Longest job was the woeful Guitarist-two weeks; shortest was the Sequinned Lady-two days. School Girl is a bit African around the eyes, but Man at a Gathering is straight Steig. In general he wanted to make figures that would not "seem out of place in the cabbage fumes of apartment houses." Last week...
...there was doubt of Artist Grosz's accomplishment in oil, the wiry strength, textural richness, clean color and solid finish of several still life and nude studies dispelled it. But the gaiety and sensuous life of these paintings made all the more striking a number of gruesome, garish or ruined landscapes and the latest, largest picture on view, A Piece of My World (see cut). This one harked back to the line drawings the artist made at 23, when he was a German pacifist who had been condemned to death but let off with front-line service...
...Croatian Maximilian Vanka was not months in the U. S. two years ago when he painted, for a little Roman Catholic Church in Millvale, Pa., a stunning set of murals to which art lovers have been making pilgrimage ever since (TIME, July 19, 1937). Last week slight, courtly, volatile Artist Vanka nearly popped with affability and shyness as Manhattan's Newhouse Galleries opened an exhibition of his work...
...humanitarian rage: spots of sunlight on a wall under Brooklyn Bridge with bums standing in each spot for warmth; three old slatterns on an alley bench, one drunk and swollen, clinging to elegance with a shawl, one still sturdy and vicious. But the best things in the show were Artist Vanka's palette knife paintings, smooth, slightly van Goghish, brilliantly composed, of a Bowery poolroom, a small-time movie house, cheap restaurant...