Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tycoon Bernstein splashed full-page advertisements in the travel sections of newspapers, took additional pages in the Sunday magazine sections, book review sections, shiny-paper magazines. His ships boasted neither luxury nor speed-all are ten-day boats-but they did offer cheap, clean, comfortable accommodations, efficient service, friendly informality...
Leon Kroll, who took the $1,000 Altman prize for landscapes. His canvas entitled Cape Ann was an excellent picture of three young people in bathing trunks, sweaters, bathrobes, done with all the artist's flair for the human figure.
Jean MacLane, who won the $1,000 Altman prize for the best genre painting with her canvas Tennis Days. In it were to be seen two athletic-looking girls wearing bandannas and two tanned, crop-headed boys in tennis garb.
Two days before the N. A. prize-winners were blindly announced over the air, a national radio audience was urgently invited to visit another Manhattan art show and inspect, at the Arthur U. Newton Galleries, a set of portraits by a small, kinetic, kinky-haired Pole named Stanislav Rembski. Most...
...sees the artist's earmarks on the canvas. ... I want you to do something practical for me. A number of men, outstanding individuals in the world . . . are now on display at the Newton Galleries. There is no charge for admission, so you go down there and study these canvases. ... It will be a fine object lesson...