Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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No one could doubt the Geological Sur vey cr Painter Thomas Moran. When he came back from the Yellowstone with a tremendous canvas of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone seen through a romantic mist. Congress voted $10,000 to buy it and hung the canvas in the Senate Lobby...
Off the canvas-covered court an hour and a half later staggered Vines and Perry. Recuperating from grippe before the match, both were so ill that by the time reporters reached it, the locker-room looked like a clinic. Vines had a fever of 102°. Said Perry: "I'...
Chekhov enthusiasts found Biographer Toumanova's summation of their hero a little on the faint side: "Chekhov is a great artist using a small canvas, a poet of the little." Princess Toumanova regards him as the mouthpiece of "the superfluous man," as the sad "voice of twilight Russia." "He...
He never lost his irritating slowness at work. Flesh tones he mixed a gob at a time with his palette knife, scrupulously held the mixture up to his sitter's face before he put it on canvas. When he painted the three little daughters of George III playing in...
Most famed example of Artist Copley's slow pace is his large portrait of The Knatchbull Family. While years passed and Copley continued to peck at the canvas, Sir Edward Knatchbull's first and second wives died and he married a third, sired a tenth child. Undaunted, Artist...