Word: artists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each book plate may have half a dozen lines of descriptive matter so that the official record will show exactly what was intended that the artist should express in the book plate...
Died. Thomas Aloysius ("Tad") Dorgan, 52, of Great Neck, L. I., famed slangman. sport cartoonist, comic strip artist (Indoor Sports) of the Hearst newspapers, native of San Francisco; of heart disease and bronchial pneumonia; in Great Neck. In boyhood a buzz-saw ripped off most of "Tad's" right hand. He learned to draw lefthanded. In 1920, when he saw Jack Dempsey knock out Billy Miske, he had a heart attack. After that he was confined to his home, drawing every day, but attending no heart-affecting sport events. Occasionally he went to Manhattan, stared up Broadway from...
About a year ago, ten public-spirited Philadelphians commissioned a Hungarian artist named Karoly Fulop, who lives in Paris, to paint five great murals for the music room of the Philadelphia Free Library. They did not consult the library trustees. They felt sure that Artist Fulop would produce something unquestionably suitable...
...paintings arrived this year from Paris, the trustees bleakly refused to accept the gift. They gave no reasons, but Philadelphia art circles babbled with conjecture. The trustees were piqued at not being consulted, said some. They were being city-loyal, said others, and saving the work for some Philadelphia artist. Some people who took the trouble to view the Fulop paintings guessed that the trouble lay right there on canvas...
...Artist Diego Rivera believes in revolution, so he dresses the part. He is, however, no ferocious cinema "greaser." He is genial, cultured, industrious. His repute grew, his geniality increased, when last week he was awarded the annual Fine Arts Medal of the American Institute of Architects.* Artist Rivera's concept of revolution has nothing to do with either Pope or bombshells. It might be described as a patient communism, and it is reflected in his art. For him, art is a proletariat function, growing out of the hot little huts of peons, expressing their lives...