Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...groping indecision his moonlit fantasies are spacious and simple in design. They reflect his eccentricities (he once proposed marriage to a neighbor the first time he met her because he liked the tone of her violin), his essentially happy life, spent doing what he most wanted to do. "The artist," Ryder once said, "needs but a roof, a crust of bread and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance...
...Sanderson, 30-year-old British zoologist, described last week in Caribbean Treasure. He found others in Haiti and Dutch Guiana. Readers of his best-selling Animal Treasure, an account of animal life in West Africa, know that Author Sanderson is no ordinary bug hunter. A distinguished scientist, a gifted artist (the animal illustrations in Caribbean Treasure are a part of its charm), Sanderson is considerably more entertaining about small animals and bugs than most writers are about lions and tigers...
Elected president of the National Association of Performing Artists, an organization of musicians to protect their work against unauthorized recording, was James John ("Jimmie") Walker, ex-Mayor of New York City, ex-composer (Will You Love Me in December As You Do in May?). Keynoted talented Artist Walker: "This organization is . . . determined to eradicate the practice of highjacking the talents of American artists...
...limestone & marble building which now houses the Post Office Department was nearing completion. Its architects wanted its walls decorated with the usual classical allegory. A special adviser to the State and Treasury Departments named Edward Bruce objected. A capable Manhattan lawyer who retired in 1922 to become a capable artist, he stormed: "I don't want any pictures of ladies in cheesecloth clutching letters and postcards to go into that building...
...standard Life of James McNeill Whistler by the etcher Joseph Pennell and his wife was published in 1908, five years after Whistler's death. Since then the artist's famed picture of his mother has become such a Mother's Day ikon* that a separate study of the Woman Behind the Painting became inevitable. If Biographer Mumford† had had the style to confine her monograph within 200 incisive pages, she might have added something to literature. By being half again as long as that, and by a dutifully winsome acceptance of Anna McNeill Whistler at face...