Word: artists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free, public lectures, one on Palestine, and the other on the English artist Hograth, will be given at the University today...
Though Mrs. Spadea has little spare time for advising You, her success as an artist has made You a reality. Publisher Spadea proudly acknowledges that most of the $55,000 Spadea interest in You came from his wife. Another $45,000. invested by 31 unnamed individuals, none by cosmetics people, insures You two years' life...
Even more pleased is Artist Wyeth that his "very domestic" wife has never painted, that three of his five children do. A Wyeth maxim is that "no college ever turned out a first-rate artist." The only nonartistic Wyeth child is Nathaniel. 25, who is also the only one who went to school after the age of 12. His wife is a Pyle. Ann, 22, does not paint but writes music. Her husband paints. Andrew, 20, already paints so well that his first one-man show in Manhattan's Macbeth Gallery last month was a sellout. Henriette, 29, married...
Last week the same Albert Sterner, now 74, held an exhibition of 18 paintings and 32 prints, drawings and monotypes at Manhattan's Kleemann Galleries. The art world paid respectful attention, for Artist Sterner, who has been called the "ablest figure painter in America," is at least one of the ablest and most forceful draftsmen of the nude in the U. S. At last week's exhibition his portrait heads, still lifes and landscapes were unexceptionable, but several of his nudes showed that his rapid, unerring draftsmanship has not faded with the years...
Even more characteristic was the artist's method of feeling out and establishing his forms. Daumier had an extraordinary visual memory and a sculptor's grasp of three-dimensional movement. His famed drawings of lawyers, legislators, railway travelers, acrobats, street characters and bourgeois at home were done usually at night, under great journalistic pressure, without models or sketches. Although Balzac said Daumier had "Michelangelo under the skin," until 1860, when he was 52, he had scarcely any time to give to painting. When he was able to work in oils he went at it slowly using tentative outlines...