Word: beaux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dates, each five years apart, are epochal in the life of Raoul Dufy. In 1895, one of nine children of a bourgeois family in Havre, he first began to paint as relaxation from clerking in an importing firm. In 1900 he went to Paris, studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under pompous Père Léon Joseph Bonnat. In 1905, he saw for the first time Henri Matisse's canvas Luxe, calme et volupté. "Confronted by that picture," he said, "I understood all the new reasons for painting." He immediately joined the famed Matisse group...
...classes in Cooper Union, then, while he worked as a draughtsman, to New York University. Last week a committee of Manhattan architects, including white-thatched Whitney Warren, Joseph Freedlander and Ely Kahn, awarded George Frei Jr. the two-and-a-half year Paris scholarship of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects for a project to house a National Banking Board in a monumental group of buildings in Washington. No modernist, Architect Frei's buildings were designed in what he called "modified classicism," a style which seems to consist in substituting plain bands of stone for the traditional classic entablatures...
...veniremen having been dismissed (19 for cause, 13 by peremptory challenges), the jury is complete. The jury consists of a hotel manager, a clerk, a publisher, a traffic manager, a contractor from The Bronx, etc. One of them is an architect hailing from Groton, Yale, and the Beaux-Arts, another a Parkavian civil engineer. The vital first act is over. If Mr. Mitchell is convicted it will not be by the prejudices of a proletarian jury...
This medal is awarded to that school which, in a given year, has shown the best record of accomplishment in the teaching of architecture along the lines followed by the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The award is made not simply on the actual record of the men in competition in the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. The Harvard Schools does not enter these competitions regularly and usually sends drawings only two or three times a year. The award is made partly on the basis of drawings sent and partly on a careful investigation...
...period of no building. The Architects of Chicago, having no outlet through steel and stone and brick, created with ideas and canvas and paint, a Latin Quarter Fête. We employed 75 draftsmen, many of whom had been out of work for months. Many of these men were Beaux Arts men-some of them Paris Prize men. They worked creatively and happily, for a small daily wage, in order that a greater number might be employed. These men created the loveliest scene ever given in Chicago, one, we are told (not to be comparative but to give a stamp...