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...TREASURY OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE-Edited by B. A. Botkin-Crown...
...Derain, Utrillo and by his friends Max Weber and Maurice Sterne. By 1933 his collection was big enough to rate an exhibition at the Chicago Arts Club. Gershwin himself started painting in 1929 and came along fast with a few tips and encouragement from his artist cousin, Henry A. Botkin. He liked to paint so much that in the year or two before his death he actually preferred it to composition at the piano, even thought of giving up his music...
...paintings acquired this year with the Hearn funds. Already on view were such old hands as Edward Hopper, Bernard Karfiol, Max Weber, Louis Eilshemius, Augustus Vincent Tack. For the first time appeared equally well-known George Biddle, William Glackens, vigorous, self-taught Joe Jones of Missouri, Henry Botkin, Robert Brackman, Alexander James, Sidney Laufman, Henry E. Mattson, Paul Sample, Louis Bouche. Showgoers lifted most surprised eyebrows when they beheld Doris Lee's Catastrophe, which showed a Zeppelin in flames over Manhattan, its passengers drifting earthward in parachutes (see cut). Working in arty Woodstock, N. Y., Mrs. Lee finished...
...Bill Tucker went down with a face and chestful of birdshot (see cut). The battle raged back and forth. Fourteen automobiles full of deputies arrived and were met by a barrage of rocks that broke their windows. Wounded men fell on every side. A would-be good Samaritan, Elmo Botkin, rushed in bearing a first aid kit, was promptly felled by a picket with a baseball bat, received an apology when he came to, was hospitalized. A short distance from the heart of the strife a peddler placidly sold ice cream bricks to the combatants. One striker went into combat...
Bacon, E. A., Barrett, C. F., Barr, H. C., Beard, F. D., Belknap, W. P. Jr., Bertschmann, L. F. Bigelow, H. D., Bolster, P. W., Bolton, J. C., Bortz, E. L., Botkin, B. A., Branigan, A. T., Brook, A., Brown, C. W., Buffington, J. Jr., Burke, W. J. Jr., Caswell, John Jr., Chick, W. G., Clark, H. C., Clark, W. D. Jr., Dean, W. W., Dempsey, D. J. Jr., Dickerson, C. E. Jr., Dickson, P. S., Doniger, E., Duggan, D. J., Dwyer...