Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, when the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows moved out of indoor arenas in Manhattan and Boston and pitched canvas in Long Island City, patrons of the Big Show sat in the first air-conditioned tent in circus history. Eight big trailers, each one a complete unit...
The show gives evidence of enormous energy among U. S. artists. Less evident is their collective importance. Seldom old-fogy, often bold, they are oftener members of a school, children of an era, than unmistakable individuals. Attesting the show's variety are such pictures as Benton's quiet...
Staircase Group (c. 1795), by Charles Willson Peale, an almost "modern" design, showing two figures on a winding stair. Note: "the canvas was originally framed in the woodwork of a doorway . . . [and] Washington once absentmindedly bowed to the young gentlemen represented."
A few mediocre charcoals and lithographs, together with an unusually fine etching compose the exhibit of Kathe Kollwitz's work now being shown in the Leverett House Common Room. The quality of the pieces in the collection is of secondary importance, however. What is far more pertinent is the fact...
> At the Chicago Art Institute's large and brilliant International Watercolor show,* visitors congregated around Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's When Fall Winds Blow, a portrait of two junky old houses. Reason: Submitted last year under the title Second Stories Are Popular, it was rejected because of a...