Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shack: the four furnished walls and floor of Artist Maclver's home-made cottage on Cape Cod, splayed out flat against a violet void and viewed from above as the driftwood rafts they...
...this shack, slim, brown-eyed, tangle-bobbed Artist Maclver once spent a winter. But every other winter since she was 16 she has lived in one or another dusty studio in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Last week, in her skylit garret on MacDougal Street, wearing leather sandals and paint-splattered slacks, she welcomed more interviewers from the press than she had ever seen in her life, testified to her work at the Art Students' League, told her love for chile concarne and the late French painter Odilon Redon, and recalled that when she sold her first two pictures...
...Many of Artist Klee's paintings were more eerie than these, e.g., On the Lawn (see cut) with its lemon-yellow stratified spectre children. Many of his recent works were more abstract, taking a line walking for its own sake, using hieroglyphic bands, patterns of color values, simplifications borrowed from paleolithic cave drawings or the art of children. If a few of such Klee ideas seemed oversubtle, there was no lack of ideas...
...Paul Klee began as an etcher, and his color generally remains less alive than his line. The opposite was true of a remarkable collection of 20 paintings hung last week in Manhattan's East River Gallery, the first one-man show of a 28-year-old New York artist named Loren Maclver. The best of these pictures brought yelps of pleasure from critics who have long complained that much U. S. painting shows the imaginative audacity of a dish rag. One of them. Procession of Small Beings, was close to a Klee fantasy except for its peculiarly vernal, blues...
...Past Recaptured: a wood panel with cracked, dim paint counterfeiting a 14th-Century relic, on which a pink and grey form swam outward as the artist's face...