Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"To avoid possible misunderstanding of the subject of his canvas . . . Albert Gold titled it The Enormous Egg Beater" (TIME, June 20, p. 23). Is this hoax or surrealism? The title might better have been The Useless Egg Beater. Look at tops and bottoms of the blades. At the bottom they...
There are two annual international exhibitions of painting in the U. S. One is at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. It is held every autumn and is devoted to paintings on canvas. The other is at the Art Institute in Chicago. It is held every Spring and is devoted to...
In Chicago's International Amphitheatre last week, with 512 performers, 400 horses, 160,000 square feet of canvas, Tim McCoy's Real Wild West & Rough Riders of the World made its bow. In Chicago the show seemed good but raw, mingled surefire thrills with extravaganza that fell flat...
One day last week 14 students of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute roved with studied aimlessness through the city of Troy, N. Y. Everywhere they went they collected pennies from shopkeepers and gasoline station attendants for a "penny-ante poker game." Other students marched in to Troy's four commercial banks...
Next day a large part of Rensselaer's 1,400 students toted their canvas and paper bags into town, proceeded to give merchants another bad day. One student bought a $50 suit, banged down five pounds of pennies in part payment.