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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Walker speaks next Wednesday afternoon on "The Other Side of the Canvas" and during the talk will work from a model with palette and brush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kwei to Speak | 2/25/1931 | See Source »

...bearings) of Canton, Ohio bearing as gifts three large and very expensive oil paintings: a Penitent Magdalen by the 17th Century Spanish sentimentalist Murillo; a Sybil by Murillo's contemporary Ribera, exhibiting his usual spotlight effect; and largest, most expensive of all, a Holy Family presumably from the brush of Peter Paul Rubens. Because Rubens is known to have employed a factory of pupils and assistants, and every Rubens painting is suspect, the usual battle of Rubenographers arose last week. Two similar Holy Families exist, one in Windsor Castle, one in the Manhattan Metropolitan Museum. Rubenographer William R. Valentiner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mechanical Muralist | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

Next Monday, January 26, the students at the School will give a tea in honor of Professor Haffner, and to welcome the visiting professor, while on the following Wednesday night, January 28, a dinner will be given for Professor Haffner by the members of the Pen and Brush Club at the Hotel Kenmore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEN IN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE TO SEEK LARGE PRIZE | 1/22/1931 | See Source »

Genius. After carefully measuring every corner of the skulls & skeletons of 2.500 humans and of 240 chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, the Charles F. Brush Foundation, founded two years ago in Cleveland (TIME, July 2, 1928), announced that a genius is one whose mind grows faster than his bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A. A. A. S. | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...that she really is in love with her cowboy, when the audience knew about it all along. As a rule there is nothing offensive about the play, it's just dull; but there is one scene which is inexcusable. Riggs, in his search for realism, paints with a broad brush. It's an old western custom to give a chivivari to an engaged couple. In accordance with tradition Miss Walker, in a night gown, together with her betrothed, is placed upon a haystack to endure with the audience ten minutes of as vulgar wise-cracking as Boston has ever heard...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/10/1930 | See Source »

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