Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A thin misty rain fell on the banks of the Potomac. The President of the U. S. looked out on a sodden spectacle from a covered stand. A dripping crowd of men and women milled over temporary canvas footpaths; others, holding umbrellas, sat on chairs set on boards to keep...
Inside one of the biggest rooms in the world one night last week batteries of searchlights played down on a canvas-covered ring where a big clumsy German named Walter Neusel wildly flailed his way to victory over cautious, thick-middled, aging Tommy Loughran of Philadelphia. Back from the ring...
By last week the great limestone & marble building which will soon house the Post Office Department just across the street from its old quarters on Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue was far enough along to raise the question of its mural decorations. With a warm controversy brewing over the type...
Most submarine painters squint at the ocean's bed through glass-bottomed buckets or make their sketches and paintings on dry land after exploring in diving suits. But not Chris Emile Olsen. In a one-piece bathing suit and crepe-soled tennis shoes Artist Olsen slips into the water...
At first Chris Olsen experienced difficulties. The density of the water destroyed perspective. He would often miss his canvas altogether. When he dropped brushes, they would float to the surface. Now he has mastered the knack of water perspective, uses a palette knife instead of a brush. To avoid chills...