Word: artists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German wing, equal to pre-War times, a wise choice of novelties to please the epicures?these are pleasant, surely, but then there exists a tendency to quantity production, to wear out the orchestra and singers: there is no French wing to speak of, no chance for the American artist. He makes no excuses, that imperturbable impresario with his thumbs in his armpits. But he knows, and others know, that for such a polyglot community there is the minimum amount of intrigue, that, as for individual singers, the world is at fault, producing less than it did once, but that...
...There are approximately 300 pieces, pictures and sculpture, and each provides sufficient study and pleasure for all who can see and feel the message of the artist, to enthrall for hours. There is a surfeit of aesthetic delight in strolling around the lovely grounds, where marvelous bronzes and statues stand among the trees and on the terraces...
...full length portrait of Boylston to be drawn, at the expense of the College, and placed in Harvard Hall, with those of Hollis and Hancock. The painting, which was executed by Copley, is considered one of the most successful and finished examples of the work of that distinguished artist. The list of holders of the Boylston Professorships includes such famous names as John Quincy Adams '87, Francis James Child '46, Adams Sherman Hill '53, LeBaron Russell Briggs '16, and the present incumbent, Charles Townsend Copland...
Critics wondered whether the judges had not given Artist Spencer the prize because they thought an American ought to have such financial assistance. Nor would a jury of critics ever have given first place to Ferrazzi's "Horatia and Fabiola"; they would have chosen the obvious and imposing qualities of Mrs. Ernest Prostor's "The Back Bedroom." You can only see a corner of the bedroom. A girl with a primitive face and a fine supple body leans over the back of a chair. The skin has texture; the pose understanding; but over it all, the simplicity...
...more staid of subscribers carped; others acquiesced. Last week, in London, Artist Frank Brangwyn continued with his plans, imperturbed. From a U. S. revue appearing at the London Pavilion, he selected Negro show girls as the models for the panels he is designing for the War memorial of the House of Lords in the Royal Gallery. The sheen of ebony figures will appear on the panel representing the Maltese Islands in the series called the "Pageant of the Empire," which show the various racial types. Carpers were alarmed by suspicions of fierce negroid heads, gleaming black torsos, black limbs...