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While such unconventional friends as Augustus John and Walter Sickert painted and blustered their way to colorful international reputations, Steer retired more & more into the quiet life of a successful painter-teacher. Hating anything that smacked of "artiness," he wore stiff three-inch collars, dressed in Savile Row suits, ordered his life as rigidly as a banker's clerk. "Painting," he said, "is a job like any other, something one has to do between meals...
Born: March 6, 1896, in San Rafael, Calif.; eldest son of the late Rear Admiral Augustus Fechteler, Annapolis '77. His German-born father captained the gunboat Concord at Manila, commanded the Fifth Naval District from 1918 to 1921, when he retired and died soon after. His brother Frank (Annapolis '18) was killed testing his plane for the 1922 Detroit Air Races...
...final three in August will bring judges, congressmen, and White House executives here to present the American political setting. Justices Felix Frankfurter of the Supreme Court, and Augustus Hand of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals have been invited, as has Senator Cabot Lodge, Jr. Judge Charles E. Wyzanski of this district's Federal bench has also expressed the hope that he can be present...
...made the trip, took along his first major work of sculpture, End of the Trail, a statue of a lean Indian sitting exhausted on his rack-ribbed horse. The work won him Paris recognition, a $1,000 prize and a job as assistant to Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Since that day, End, of the Trail has become one of the best-known and most frequently reproduced pieces of sculpture ever made by an American...
...Other sculptors who have received it include Daniel Chester French, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Paul Manship...