Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Millions of U. S. citizens had ears at the opening of the London Naval Conference, but barely twoscore had eyes. Radio voices can leap the Atlantic, but not yet radio vision. Last week the flying brush of an intently listening artist was still the swiftest means of bridging the ocean with the glow and glamor of the conference, the rich stained glass lights and solemn shadows of the fusty Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. There, in the simple garb of a gentleman, His Majesty George V, King and Emperor, Defender of the Faith, stood up with his Prime...
...last week's pageant he returned to his own sex. As barber he vigorously plied lather brush and wooden razor on the faces of Equator neophytes before toppling them into the canvas tank erected on the Kenilworth Castle's deck. In the midst of the ruckus little Wendy Tuke, eight-weeks-old baby, was brought to the barber's chair. Nervous passengers crowded forward, wondering whether baby Tuke was to be shaved and ducked with the others. Barber Wales contented himself with sprinkling a little soapy water on Baby Tuke's puckered face, conferring...
...errors of the past, it would merely have postponed his entrance into the École des Beaux-Arts and his training under Bouguereau, Gustave Moreau and Gérôme. The tradition of these ateliers has been carried on since by such conventionalists as George de Forest Brush of the U. S. (who preceded Matisse in the classes of Gérôme but it is hard to believe that the more rebellious young men who visited them through the Du Mauriesque streets of Paris found them dull or stuffy. The apprentice artists of that day, those...
...other canvases exhibited the wide range of methods, the diverse schools which Painter Brush has dabbled in in Paris under Gerome, in Florence, in the U. S. Far West, in New Hampshire. Twelve were portraits of mothers and children; grave, almost severe blonde ladies clasping infants in whose dimpled countenances no inherited austerity was yet apparent. There were also children alone, their small faces made charming by the possession of some perennial secret; and there was the picture of an Indian in his canoe on a dark river, who stared through a subaqueous gloom of trees at a bird, moving...
...Artist Brush is still too courteous to become much exercised over the accusations of dissatisfied patrons. He lives in a farmhouse at Dublin, N. H., but is wintering at Oyster Bay, L. I. His eight children, of whom three have died, grew up in the West while Artist Brush was painting Indians. They learned to pose before they learned to read and received little formal schooling. His four girls are now married; one to a Cabot, one to a Coates, one to a Bowditch, one to Inventor Winslow Pierce...