Word: artists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Fashion Critic Hawes was still pouting at her publishers because they refused to illustrate her book with drawings she had had made by one of her favorite artists, the New Yorker's Helen Elna Hokinson. She vowed she was going to write another book, one that no publisher could consider too serious for Hokinson illustrations. Far less concerned with the incident than the fiery Hawes, shy Artist Hokinson, a specialist in the idiosyncrasies of clubwomen, was last week mainly interested in a delightful mass of raw material-a mob of inimitably shaped Garden Clubbers who descended...
...displayed modern furniture, scientifically designed in pale plywood by the brilliant Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto. Balancing these examples of machine and functional art was a third room in which visitors found reportorial art of the most sensitive kind-an exhibition of 105 drawings made in Spain by the Leftist artist, Luis Quintanilla...
...night while the Revolution of 1848 was spreading over the German states, a great organizer, founder, artist, poet, and musician sat on a luxurious couch in great anxiety, not over the political situation, but over his financial affairs. He had piled one debt upon the other, and the climax had come when all his friends refused to advance him any more credit. "Men should be glad to lend to a genius like me," he thought, getting up and pacing the room...
Kolbe, Barlach, Lehmbruck are names as familiar to exhibition-goers as Maillol or Rodin. Lehmbruck, that strange, intense artist who committed suicide in 1919, is the creator of monumental figures, some calm and passive, others struggling against a malignant fate. Lehmbruck is essentially a worker in clay, a modeler, but with a rare sense of plastic form...
...late Gothic German predecessors, is a carver of wood. His peasant men and women are emotional creatures, strangely Slavic in character, clad in roughhewn garments that are subtly expressive of the figures' mood. They have the same subjective intensity that is found in the strange dramas written by the artist...