Word: canvased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHEN Mr. Koussevitsky presents the "Pines of Rome" with a canned nightingale as a member of his orchestra, he does not create an effect to be condemned for its novelty as realism. And if anyone were to paste grandfather's own moustache upon his crayon portrait in the parlor, the...
In a few paragraphs Mrs. Wharton enunciates the fundamental differences between the novel and the short story, for "situation is the main concern of the short story, character of the novel." And it depends, she continues in her discussion of the short story, "almost entirely on its form or presentation...
In Chicago the Art Institute announced that it was sending a party of 38 to cruise through arctic regions, committing glaciers to canvas. The artists, recruited from five states, will take ship in June.
Edouard Manet (1832-83) was among the first of the Impressionists. He has been consistently confused with his contemporary, Monet, by people who cannot tell black from white. Manet's figures are flat; Monet's trees and seas and flowery forests leap with a wind of movement. Manet loved light...
Americans have been growing anxious, however, almost clamorous, to step into the Louvre, when they make the grand tour, and see at least one canvas on which the paint has been applied by fingers born in America. Last week the Louvre announced that Americans have only to go into the...