Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another Academy specialty, the large historical canvas, has lived on in England while similar work in France, Austria and Germany has long gathered dust on museum and palace walls. Most popular of this type was The Founding of Australia by Algernon Talmadge (see cut). It shows Australia Explorer Capt. Arthur...
First sale on opening day was made by Dame Laura Knight, first woman ever to be on the Academy's selection committee, a famed painter of circus scenes. Dominating most of one wall in a main gallery was her massive canvas called London Palladium showing an unprepossessing young woman...
It was probably a good thing for Renoir that before he was 18 he spent several years painting china for a Paris firm. A strong sense of how well clear colors looked on a light ground kept his later painting from dissolving into the atmospheric ultimates of the Impressionists, though...
Big item, of painting in the sale was Indian Warfare, by Frederic Remington, incorrectly subtitled Custer's Last Stand. Though not the traditional Custer's Last Fight, painted especially in 1888 for Budweiser Beer advertisements by Cassidy Adams, this canvas brought top price for painting. It went for...
Mr. Kissner's Folbots cost from $40 to $70, come in five models and two typesצrdinary and heavy duty. The complete craft weighs about 50 lb. A canvas deck keeps out spray, and two rubber notation tanks prevent sinking in case of capsizing. Low-slung, they are hard...