Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this, Sculptor Bufano's artistic friends were not slow to remark that a "drool cloth" was something Mr. Pegler needed himself. Sculptor Bufano promptly challenged Pegler to make good on his offer to sculp something better. The horseplay stage of the controversy then began. Old Newshawk Pegler played ball with the boys by posing for photographs in an artist's smock and beret. Sculptor Bufano made a scornful sketch of Sculptor Pegler's statue. Finally completed last week and cast in plaster, Pegler's model was shipped to San Francisco. It was called "Mrs. George Spelvin...
...director ever since, he revolted against classical conventions, emphasized realism, truth, emotional sincerity, charged his actors to "live the part every moment." He was equally proficient as actor, author (An Actor Prepares, My Life and Art), teacher and philosopher. Once he summed up: "My work with the artist is to open his eyes to . . . those things that must be developed out of his own soul." Died. Edmund Charles Tarbell, 76, portrait painter of such bigwigs as Marshal Foch, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover; of portal cirrhosis; at New Castle...
Probably the only U. S. artist equally eminent in photography and painting, Sheeler spent six weeks in 1927 photographing the Ford plant at River Rouge. Doubting critics to whom Charles Sheeler's industrial paintings seem to deviate from photographic realism only in their fine selectivity and arbitrary color values may disagree with Biographer Rourke about the degree of three-dimensional design underlying them. More clearly a fusion of abstraction and realism are earlier paintings of farmhouse interiors, later paintings of patterned objects in Artist Sheeler's home at Ridgefield, Conn. Few critics will deny that his work proves...
...CHARLES SHEELER, ARTIST IN THE AMERICAN TRADITION-Constance Rourke-Harcourt, Brace...
...subject matter imposed by the assistant to the national director, shrewd, brown-eyed Mrs. Increase Robinson. They are: no nudes, no dives, no social propaganda. Presumably tranquilized by these exclusions, by a living wage of $94 a month and by freedom from any compulsion to be fashionable, such exhibiting artists as Raymond Breinin, Lester Schwartz, William Schwartz, Hester Miller Murray, Joseph Vavak and Mitchell Siporin showed growing talent, intelligence, style. In sculpture the variety was especially striking, from Mary Anderson's crisp Alice in Wonderland (see cut), in which the technique of Magazine Artist Joseph Christian Leyendecker seemed adapted...