Word: artists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simon & Schuster ($10). Of some 40 art titles published in the past month, outstanding have been: A TREASURY or AMERICAN PRINTS-Thomas Craven-Simon & Schuster ($3.95): †HAVE WE AN AMERICAN ART-Edward Alden Jewell-Longmans ($2.75); GIST OF ART-John Sloan-American Artists Group ($3.75); AN AMERICAN ARTIST'S STORY-George Biddle -Little, Brown ($4); RUBENS-Phaidon Edition-Oxford University Press...
...beard, a beady eye and baggy trousers. Standing before a painting, preferably a high-priced one, he would mutter. "Pffft! Such crude pigments! My, such a stencil technique-brr-let me get away!" He stopped other gallery-goers to tell them he was the world's greatest artist, passed out handbills describing himself as "Mesmerist-Prophet and Mystic, Humorist Galore, Ex All Round Athletic Sportsman (to 1889), Scientist supreme: all ologies, Ex Fancy amateur Dancer. . . ." He wrote crank letters to the newspapers. His letterhead: "Mahatma Dr. Louis M. Eilshemius, M.A. etc., Mightiest Mind and Wonder of the Worlds, Supreme...
...veterans that remained, one of the best-paid and most eccentric was Bill Cunningham, temperamental sports artist of the Boston Post. Not syndicated, he filed a tax return last year on an income of $50,000. His salary from the Post was $21,000; the rest he got from magazine articles, lectures, radio broadcasting and assorted chores...
Guerino Baldi, Spanish-American War veteran, self-styled artist, accused the "Juries of the American Contemporary Art for the New York World's Fair" of a "perfidious verdict" in rejecting his oil painting. Indignantly wrote Painter Baldi: "I most frankly state that I have revolutionized the art of painting. . . . The reason to boycott my painting took place to protect from monetary disaster and depreciation all the canvas and exterior painting, where there is many billions of dollars involved throughout the world. . . ." Mr. Baldi's rejected work was a picture of Rudolph Valentino fighting a docile bull beneath...
...carefully to be distinguished from the stuff of doctoral theses. Mr. Van Doren's comment on Falstaff's style is a case in point: "(Falstaff) being old and fat, he is short of breath and so must be brief of phrase . . . He has made the most of this limitation. Artist that he is, he has accepted its challenge and employed it in effects that express his genius with a notable and economical directness. His speech then is not merely brief; it is repetitive, it rolls back on itself, it picks up its theme and tosses it to us again, with...