Word: brush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Montauk, Childe Hassam, famed artist, paints pictures of the countryside. Last week, he exhibited a group of them in Manhattan. It is always afternoon in Montauk; there whisper trees more shadowy than any that ever stooped their boughs in Eden; gods live there and fairies, so says the brush of Mr. Hassam. Diana as Spring bursts arrowy-footed through the wood, paling with her whiteness the white dogwood blossom; in The Grove of Aphrodite nymphs move to pipes unseen, sentineled by poplars; Dryads dance upon a blowy hill against a far horizon. It is not strange, then, that...
...instrument which so unites the rhythms of music with the accents of color, properly perfected, is beyond doubt as permanent an addition to the engines of Art as a violin or a paint brush. Great advances have been made in the Clavilux since its first demonstration in Manhattan three years ago; great advances must be made before it will be pliant to the uses of genius...
...Cass Gilbert, Robert Grant, Frederick MacMonnies, William GilIett, Paul E. More, Gari Melchers, Elihu Vedder, Brand Whitlock, Hamlin Garland, Paul Shorey, Charles A. Platt, Archer M. Huntington, Childe Hassam, David J. Hill, Lorado Taft, Booth Tarkington, Charles D. Gibson, Joseph Pennell, Stuart Sherman, John C. Van Dyke, George deF. Brush, Albert G. Beveridge, Royal Cortissoz, Henry K. Hadley, Charles D. Hazen. Willard L. Metcalf...
...scholarly and tasteful work on Nell Gwynn, by Lewis Melville, has just been published by the George H. Doran Co.* Her story is entertainingly told and charmingly illustrated. Almost simultaneously, there is announced the sale of a picture of Nell, an authenticated painting from the brush of Sir Peter Lely, chief court painter to Charles II. It was sold by Grosvenor Clarkson to Mary Coleman, Inc., and shows little Nell, as Venus, reposing naked on colored silk draperies, a cupid by her side. Her eyes and hair are brown, her lips ripely red, her flesh tones soft and warm...
...Thomas Cusack, a youth in his teens, started a business with only a paint pot and brush and a remarkable personality as assets. The business consisted in painting advertising signs on the sides of buildings in a small way. Gradually, he took to building billboards of his own, and leasing suitable walls and other locations for outdoor advertisements...