Word: canvased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Surely Leonardo da Vinci had never painted a "dead" eye. Leonardo studied artillery, muscle fibres, ladies' lips, everything that quivered with life, mechanical or protoplasmic. He was the inspired archetype of the small boy who wants to know how things work. Sir Joseph Duveen could not believe that the...
History. During the War, Capt. Harry J. Hahn, Kansas City auto salesman, served with the U. S. aviation corps. In France he met and married Mlle. Andree Lardoux, niece of the Marquis de Chambre of Brittany. She brought her husband a natural dowry of dark hair and eyes, Gallic chic...
There was an evening in Paris in the '70s when the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, went backstage at the Varietes. He was led through a gloomy cavern of stained canvas, ropes, flaring lamps. The air was pungent, draughty, filled with the cloying scent of women doused with violent...
Blue canvas for a ceiling stretched over Chicago's Coliseum last week. It was intended to represent the sky; few of the thousands who visited the first International Aeronautical Exposition under that dyed sky paid attention to it. Airport beacons flicked their beams about the room; few noticed them...
In Czechoslovakia there has just been completed The Epic of Slavic History, a series of 20 paintings so enormous that Alfons Mucha, the artist, has been as busy with stepladders as with lexicons. For more than 18 years the work has been under way. The subjects range from earliest Slavic...