Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your article on the American artist Charles Burchfield [June 15] was of great interest to me, as I am a native Salemite (Ohio) and knew the Burchfield family...
Also, I knew the Baptist church tower, theme of the artist's Church Bells Ringing, Rainy Winter Night. That church tower was a masterpiece of Victorian gimcrackery. It was so downright, honestly ugly that, like George Arliss, it was positively beautiful. The sound of its bell, to paraphrase Poe, was "In the startled ear of night/ How it screamed out its affright!" I think that old tower perhaps may have had a soul, and Burchfield, like William Blake, was able to commune with such spirits...
...time the case was tossed out of court, there had been enough publicity to satisfy the most ambitious press agent. Crowds flocked in to see John's line drawings of himself making love to his Japanese wife Yoko Ono. Sold: 296 sets of 14 lithos, for a total artist's commission...
...exhibits mastery of what the redoubtable Ethel Barry more called the hardest part of acting: the art of beautiful listening. It was a gracious gesture to assign the Epilogue to the Countess instead of the King. Miss Le Gallienne is a small woman, but she is a towering artist...
...bottom of a corpulent cutie, the label on a bottle of liquor, the barroom floor, all bore the enigmatic letters: CPLY. It is the maddeningly unpronounceable nom de plume of William Nelson Copley, a Manhattan artist-collector-philanthropist who says he slipped the vowels from his name out of deference to John Singleton Copley, the 19th century American painter...