Word: artists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nottingham School of Art in 1903, Laura Johnson met Harold Knight. Soon they married and pursued together the trade of painting pictures. Together they passed from the stage of conscientious nature imitation to the artist's inevitable urge for expression. Also, they struggled with relentless poverty, walking to London to see Mr. Knight's first picture exhibited. Laura Knight sold her first picture (Mother and Child) to Edward Staff, A. R. A. Two years later another picture (A Cup of Tea by Mr. Knight) was sold. Next, they went to Holland where their work became dusky, grey, contemplative...
...content with stark commercialism, determined to bring to their city all the concentrated beauty that a staggering sum of money could buy. It stands today one of the finest public collections in the western world. It was unquestionably the influence of this museum that prompted Lasalle & Koch to engage Artist Covey as their window-dresser. Nor did they engage him to help sell shoes and pots and furniture. Not one item of their stock was to be placed in their windows during the twelve days the pictures were on exhibition...
...held last night, the titles of the three one-act plays which the club will produce next month were announced. They will be the following: "Le Pater," a military drama by Francais Copet; "Hypnotisee", a farcical take-off on mysticism by Grenet-Dancourt; and "L'Intruse", by the Belgian artist-playwright Maurice Maeterlinck, a modern mystery-play which will be an innovation for the Cercle, which has hitherto presented nothing but old French classics...
...artist responsible for the advertisement, at least for the illustration, may have caught the true feminine pose appropriate to such incidents, occasional as such incidents...
...Significance. Captious critics have called George Bellows an illustrator rather than an artist. This is because the most important qualities in his work are a sense of the dramatic and an ability to make the movement of his figures so intense that it is almost impossible to realize that they are, actually, stationary. Like all other artists, he is an illustrator of life; like no other artist he has found the themes for his illustrations in the strident banalities of U.S. civilization. Perhaps the only important U. S. artist who never crossed the geographical boundary of his country, he advanced...