Word: canvased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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H. M. George V, R. I., is naturally harassed by artists anxious to paint his portrait and gain fame and pelf thereby. Recently Artist Richard Jack, R. A., failed to persuade His Majesty to grant a sitting, but was graciously allowed the loan of a sword, a field marshal'...
The Herr President was likewise gladdened to receive from Oriental couriers a picture framed in solid gold encrusted with exquisite ivory mosaic work. Upon the canvas shone the portrait of a sovereign whose dark handsome features and calm imperious brow do not betray the daredevil brain within. A field marshal...
Fort Wayne, Ind., remembers a short, wiry, 16-year-old boy whose parents, in 1910, mortgaged their home for $1,800 that he might fly. He purchased materials, a motor, built a plane, showed his mother how to sew canvas on his wings. His first flight wiped out six months...
¶ A cable from Sydney, New South Wales, announced that the local government had decided to send to President Coolidge a painting of the U. S. fleet as it lay in Sydney harbor last summer. A committee in charge decided to inquire whether a canvas 84 by 60 feet could...
"A happy home is essential to the real expression of art. . . . An artist more than anyone else needs mothering. I call my home a hospital for broken wings. It's not that I believe in temperament either. I think temperament is entirely unnecessary if the artist actually expresses himself. He...