Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Moose-tall Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to the U. S., stalked into the White House, disclosed to Franklin Roosevelt a large canvas from the brush of Frank Salisbury, British artist who last winter painted the President's portrait. On the canvas was a handsome picture of George...
Because most wrestling addicts firmly believe their favorite sport to be dishonestly conducted and because Heavyweight Champion Jim Londos was scheduled to climax his season with a widely ballyhooed charity match against Ben Tenario ("Chief Little Wolf"), no one paid much attention to Londos' bout with a young Irishman...
Not until comparatively recent times did such painters as the late Léon Bakst and goat-bearded, mystic Nicolas Constantinovich Roerich attempt to start a really Russian school of painting, based on Russia's Byzantine iconographers. There were few examples of this at the Hammer Galleries. The sort...
"I put a canvas-backed armchair in front of my table. On it I put an alarm clock, my shaving-mirror, a pencil, a memorandum pad, a glass of water and a teaspoonful of the powder. I slipped into the chair, faced the mirror, poured the powder into the water...
THE title of Mr. Laurie's book is singularly appropriate. As an "account of the history of painting, from the point of view of the painter as craftsman, telling what materials he used and how he used them," the book sheds light on the material basis of art, which is...