Word: begonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the line. Apart from this, the best thing he remembers about the War was driving a British tank, whose downslithers gave him "a lovely sensation." Abstracted, ruddy and untidy, he now sits at a big desk beside a lofty window which frames two sprawling, dirty vines and a begonia plant, directs the immaculate preservation of more than 100,000 prints. Last winter Curator Rossiter exhibited 500 as the first gesture in celebration of his department's soth anniversary. The lithographs now on view are the second gesture...
...Proctor, Art Theorist Roger Elliot Fry. Yet second prize went to one Alexander Brook of New York, third prize ($500) to Charles Dufresne of Paris. Since Picasso's portrait of his wife is not for sale, Artist Brook's still-life of a cat, three peaches, a begonia and a door brought him $2,000-the Albert C. Lehmann prize for the best purchasable painting. One artist who won no prizes but many a press notice was tousle-haired John Kane of Pittsburgh. Artist John Kane is a house painter and kalsominer by profession, has attended...