Word: artists
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...drawings in the margin of a textbook and sent me to the principal," he recalls. "The principal said, 'What's to become of you?' and I said, 'Well, I'm going to be a sports cartoonist.' " He learned lettering as a department store artist, and after an apprenticeship of cleaning paste pots and doing layout retouching for various newspapers became a semiregular cartoonist for the sports section of the old Los Angeles Herald. The New York World-Telegram hired him in 1935, and for three decades thereafter his cartoons dominated its lead sports page...
When is a TV artist not a TV artist? When he is William F. Buckley, Firing Line's syndicated conservative, that's when. Last week Buckley filed a federal suit challenging the requirement that he belong to a performers' union in order to appear on the air. The union in question is the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which includes actors, tap dancers-and news anchor men, among others...
...sales. Her jersey-and-tweed suits won a cool reception from the press, but soon nearly every knockoff house was competing to turn out the closest replica. Chanel had long since refused to join the cabal of Paris designers who tried to prevent style piracy. "I am not an artist," she insisted. "I want my dresses to go out on the street." Out they went by the thousands, easy to copy, because of the straightforward design, and cheap to produce, because the fabric was standard. Even a copy of a Chanel could claim its cachet. Private customers paid...
Died. Jean Varda, 77, California artist noted for his collages: of a heart attack; in Mexico City. Starting as a portrait painter in Paris, Varda had already switched to collage when he came to the U.S. in 1939. Much of his work was based on the idea that each picture should be remembered for one major color and contain just enough of another to accent the dominant shade...
Today Tyler has more overtures from artists than he can handle, and his reluctance to produce anything but ambitious prints and multiples (Lichtenstein's 4-ft. bronze relief, Peace Through Chemistry, was published at $5,000) by "name" artists has given rise to predictable criticism. Tyler's argument is that, without subsidy, only assured sales will underwrite the immense cost of the equipment needed to develop the print medium-and he has a point. (June Wayne of Tamarind has the same argument: "The more the artist knows about lithography, the more it costs to make a print...