Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...myself why I draw a line one way and not another. It always seems to me compelling, as if it could not possibly be different-but I never know why. Let physiologists and psychologists explain the mechanical functions and the psychic impulses that originate art. I am merely an artist. I can draw, perhaps, but I cannot explain...
What exotic Cecil Beaton, the London and New York society photographer, was nonetheless expected to explain last week was this microscopic lettering discovered by Columnist Walter Winchell in a small corner of a sketch Artist Beaton did for the Feb. 1 issue of Vogue: "Mr. Andrew's ball at the El Morocco brought out all the dirty Kikes in town." The sketch, bordering an article on cafe society, included several simulated newspaper pages. A tiny sheet headed Daily Mirror, which carries Mr. Winchell's column, was labeled Broadway Filth. In another small space Artist Beaton had written: "Cholly...
That Brasher's original paintings might be together forever, he and Nephew Philip, the artist's business aid, negotiated an agreement with Connecticut's State Park & Forest Commission in 1934: Brasher would give his paintings; the State would within two years build a wheel-shaped gallery for them in Kent Falls State Park. Month ago, the museum not having been built according to the agreement, Philip Brasher drove to Hartford, declared the paintings forfeit to the artist. Few days later he & wife trundled them down to Washington, where this week, in the National Geographic's large...
...little courtroom was packed when Colonel William J. Donovan got slowly to his feet last week. Most important person present, not including the defendants and attorneys, was University of Wisconsin's illustrious Artist-in-Residence John Steuart Curry, his pencil out and ready to catch "Wild Bill" Donovan in action. Colonel Donovan cried: "Gentlemen, we may now see another depression, a new call for men to sit down with their President...
...painting in the country by the famous impressionist, Bazille, was given the museum by his relatives. Other outstanding gifts included a Benin bronzebust from Mrs.John D.Rockefeller Jr., a group of bronze statuettes from Grenville L. Winthrop '86, and a number of Sargent's sketch books and portfolios from the artist's sister, Mrs.Francis Ormond...