Word: brush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...river below the boat house. No other sign of Clapp had been found until late yesterday afternoon when it developed that James Milliken, caretaker of the Cambridge boat house, had seen a swimmer in a blue bathing suit climb up on the opposite bank and disappear into the brush...
...advertising employs, artists of pen and brush alike. Its appeal is to the taste of the artistic which everyone has in some remote corner of his nature, and which the old methods did not reach. Instead of flaunting, barbarisms, the new art embodies "the fables of the people", and it displays "some of the most ingenuous literature...
...latest wearer of the green uniform of the Academie des Beaux Arts, one of the five subdivisions of the ancient Institut de France, is J. L. Forain, famous cartoonist of Le Figaro. He was a pupil of Honore Daumier, greatest of all users of the satiric brush of the political cartoonist. Daumier was a great artist from any point of view. Forain has never equalled him, but his position is very important, not only in journalism, but in " straight" etching and painting as well...
...signature almost buried in grime. The "light that never was on land or sea" was painted by Rembrandt, if by any one. His pictures glow with a peculiar mellow intensity that can hardly have existed in the actual scene before him. While the light from Rembrandt's brush falls on them, they are people in a dream, creatures of imagination as much as Hamlet, Pickwick, Lear. If the light were turned out there would remain only burgomasters, doctors, old women paring their nails, painted with marvelous, sometimes brutal, truthfulness to actual life in 17th century Holland. In the panel...
Tickets for the ball will not be sold at the door and no person will be admitted whose costume is not judged to be of historical accuracy and artistic merit. The proceeds will be given to the decoration of a room in Robinson Hall, known as the Pen and Brush Club Common Room, which will be shared with the Topiarian Club of the School of Landscape Architecture...