Word: artists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brilliant young American designer, Robert Redington Sharpe, is now on exhibition in the basement of Widener Library. These pictures, being shown to the public for the first time, are a portion of the collection given the University last August By Hugh Henry Sharpe, H, a nephew of the late artist...
...John Kane, Pittsburgh laborer and house painter whose canvases stand alone in U. S. art as monumental documents of the Monongahela and Allegheny Valley steel country. An Irishman, who grew up working in Scottish mines and came to the U. S. at 19, Kane was unknown as an artist until he was past 60. He died in 1934 at 74. This week the rugged, blue-eyed, peg-legged man's extraordinary autobiography, Sky Hooks,* is finally published as it was told to his friend, Marie McSwigan...
Drawing and painting were added to the time-honored forms of occupational therapy (basket-weaving, metal work, etc.) at Bellevue in the spring of 1935. The Federal Art Project furnished artist-instructors to hold four or five classes a week for all children and adults, except surgical patients, in the psychiatric division. For Bellevue psychiatrists this meant precisely what a new and rangier telescope would mean to an observatory. Day by day they could study in sequence the attempts at expression by mentally sick people. Though the art of individual schizophrenics, among them Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, has been analyzed...
...Schizophrenics sometimes cling to reality just in the moment when, because of their disease, they are afraid of losing it completely," Dr. Bender said. "Then they see more than the normal person, who does not always appreciate what he has in this world." Most sane and able artists professionally see "more than the normal person," and in this, as in what Dr. Bender called "the uncanny mysticism" of other pathological daubers, the case work on exhibit invited rude yells from that part of the public which likes to identify the artist with the screwball. What psychiatrists think about that...
Although Fred Jacoby is a professional motorboat racer (61% of U. S. outboard racers are professional), he earns his livelihood as a scenic artist, painting backdrops for Broadway shows. A veteran of twelve years of riding flying shingles, he knows better than to depend on his racing earnings. In 1935, when he won the Albany marathon (worth $250) and spreadeagled the field in almost every other regatta, he wound up with the coveted...