Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After carefully examining the cross, Stout stated in his official "Observations on the Condition of a Portrait of Bishop William Lawrence by Charles Hopkinson": "In reflected light, there appears in the painting an inconsistency of surface character along narrow bands which extend vertically and horizontally through the center of the...
"Alternate condensation on the wall and drying from the radiator below would cause a wide variation in the moisture content of the paint and support. Those parts of the canvas and the paint film next the stretcher piece would have a steady moistness."
The Eternal City is not a large canvas (45½ in. by 59½ in.), but it took the artist two years to conceive, three years to paint. Stalwart, tranquil Peter Blume was 26 when he got a Guggenheim fellowship, took his young wife Ebie to Italy in 1932. They...
Fortnight ago Joseph Widener had his little joke. He announced that the large canvas which he had conveyed in great secrecy from Paris last spring was no Boucher but a painting by Paul Cézanne which has been regarded as one of the great masterpieces of modern art, Les...
No gilded trappings hung from above, no canvas masonry affronted the eye of the 1937 realist. The play, up-to-date in dress and interpretation, was the thing. The red-brick back wall was the only backdrop, the gadgets of a more formal theatre hung idle in the wings. The...