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...Rightist Spanish civilian sufferers, hundreds of Catholic school children marched in tatters and red-smeared bandages. To represent "Spain" Socialite Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken, whose Son Arthur was wounded last October while filming Spanish battle scenes, appeared in one of the spangled costumes in which she annually dazzles the Beaux-Arts Ball...
Last week the sculpture prize 'went to John Amore of New York City, a 25-year-old professional who was trained at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, has worked on Manhattan's Radio City decorations and is now a sculptor's assistant. Sculptor Amore's winner was Iris Creating the Rainbow. Beside a modernized figure of the goddess, John Amore set a slender striated arc of marble which he described as "the nascent rainbow springing with the speed of light into the arch of the heavens" (see cut). Other winners...
...weeks of the exhibition. Not one of the professional prizewinners or the critics' favorites was in the first half-dozen. To 343 humble Washingtonians, the best picture in the show had been Ballerina by Russian-born Feodor Zakharov, graduate of Imperial Moscow's Ecole des Beaux Arts, now a socialite U. S. portraitist. Slickly painted, showing a very refined young lady posed theatrically on tiptoe in the theatre wing, it won more than twice as many votes as its nearest competitor, Alice Through the Black Bottle, by Charles S. Chapman, another canvas missed by most professional critics. Impressed...
Born 57 years ago in Havre of a solid, bourgeois family, he became a clerk in his father's importing house, started to paint as a hobby about 1895. Five years later he went to Paris to make art his profession, stuck to conservative Beaux Arts training until the summer of 1905 when he saw his first picture by Henri Matisse. "Confronted by that picture," said Raoul Dufy, "I understood all the new reason for painting...
Architect Kahn, a native New Yorker who studied at Columbia and won a Prix Labarre while at the Paris Beaux-Arts, stepped boldly into the Institute chairmanship in 1933. Brisk, mustached and famed for his spaghetti suppers, he has never designed an opera house but his Squibb Building and many another chaste Manhattan skyscraper are nationally known. As a practical result, Beaux-Arts students have lately been getting assignments for esquisses and projects of automobile factories instead of orangeries. When they finish them in six weeks and ship them to New York, they are returned with crisp comments by such...