Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Owen Mahoney Jr., latest winner, was born in Dallas 24 years ago, graduated from Southern Methodist University before going to Yale. Twice he has won prizes for the Beaux Arts Ball program cover. His winning canvas is entitled Sunday Afternoon. It shows a U. S. family of the Iron...
On a wall of the Explorers Club in upper Manhattan is a painting, done in the 'Arctic, of the late Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920) examining a meteorite. The canvas came from a pair of the North Pole discoverer's brown pants. The artist was Albert Operti, a...
"While the seals splashed joyously in their pool nearby, Mr. Tiebor told of the time necessary to dismantle the entire circus. "All of the wagons which fill 40 flat cars can be loaded in one and one half hours. This will have to be done next week when we open...
The difference may be in the man. Both worked in industrial subjects, both were Carl Sandburgs in the field of painting. Just as Sandburg found as much beauty in the steel of a skyscraper as in the waving wheat, so Pennell and Beneker were not so blinded by the beauty...
His closer acquaintance with the subject, lessened the complement of imagination necessary to register the whole image on canvas. He is impersonal. He catches with the eye, of the camera, and he fortifies the object with symbolism; but his symbolism is the soul emanation of the object, not the essence...