Word: artists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citation, read by David McCord '21, president of the Signet Associates, said "Gluyas Williams: Distinguished artist in black and white, whose satire, wit, and diverging sympathies have colored countless drawings in our national press...
...difficult to say whether the psychological insight of the writer or the dramatic revelation of the artist constitute the greater triumph. In any event each throws a revealing searchlight upon the other...
...only because many of the pictures are either studies for murals of pure exercises in body composition. The sponsors have naturally been limited in their choice, but for future exhibitions,--and there certainly should be many of them,--they should attempt to gather a more coherent representation of an artist's work...
...unofficial National Gallery by virtue of location, Washington's sedate Corcoran swam into the news last week. Rejected by Corcoran's jury for its sixteenth biennial show of U. S. oil paintings was The Eternal City, famed satire on Roman Fascism by conscientious Artist Peter Blume (TIME, Jan. 3, 1938). When supporters of Artist Blume snorted "politics!", supporters of the Corcoran sniffed "publicity...
...important counts Family Portrait falls down. It shows Jesus' family resenting and rejecting Him, over and over to the point of dullness. Worse, with its unbiblical, small-town atmosphere, it reduces Him to the stature of any misunderstood "artist in the family," and the play to a satire on petit-bourgeois respectability. This diminution of scale undoubtedly gives the play piquancy; but it proves fatal so far as evoking the unique spirit of Jesus is concerned. Though not at all irreverent, Family Portrait has none of the feeling that went into painting The Last Supper; rather the cleverness that...