Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In his earlier work Shakspere writes of young men and maidens, their loves, mirths, and griefs, as one who is among them, taking a lively personal interest in their affairs. But in the last plays the "beautiful, pathetic light" is always present. They are the sufferers, aged, experienced and tried...
On a summer afternoon in 1885 the great Pre-Raphaelite painter, Sir John Everett Millais, saw his curly-headed little grandson, Willie James, blowing soap bubbles in a velvet suit, induced him to pose for his portrait in return for a series of fairy stories. Before the portrait was finished...
There followed shortly the two great blows of David Blythe's life. Pretty Julia Keffer died a year after he married her. He painted an enormous panorama of western Pennsylvania landscapes and historical scenes, mounted it on rollers and dreamed of making a fortune by taking it on tour...
Early this morning a large white canvas with the initials V.F.W. appeared at the top of the Lowell House tower. It was presumably placed there by climbing the mysterious ladder that has been in evidence during the last week.
Appropriately housed in the bright Bignou Gallery high over the Rolls-Royce showroom on Manhattan's 57th Street, there opened last week the world's first public exhibition of the first tapestries ever woven from cartoons of famed modern artists. Agog at the novelty of seeing in fine...