Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Wallenda Troupe, high wire performers. Two Wallendas stand on the wire, a pole upon their shoulders. On the pole is a chair. Standing on the chair is another Wallenda. Standing on the shoulders of this Wallenda is the fourth (female) Wallenda. Spectators gasp when the chair jerks dangerously, look...
He has done plenty. Jonas Lie is a National Academician, painter member of New York's City Art Commission, and a director of the Art Students' League. He was born in Norway in 1880, in his own words "by accident of a Norwegian father and an American mother of Scotch...
Jonas Lie still mistrusts too much force in other men's painting. At the Art Students' League he lately fought a wordy battle with grey-thatched President John Sloan, another painter who can argue, over the propriety of inviting George Grosz, potent German modernist, to teach at the League. George...
". . . The question may arise?when there is so much talk of American art for America?why a foreign teacher? My answer is that a teacher is artists' material. Just as all American artists use foreign canvas because it is best, so we may use good foreign instruction."
...school to rival the Academy. They simply opened a place where any painter could show anything. Since then the discovery of U. S. talent has become a highly organized business and the Independents' show largely a waste of time. Last week in all the 944 canvases on view, the only notable ones were those contributed by President John Sloan, Secretary A. S. Baylinson, Director Warren Wheelock and a few other loyal lingerers from the Independents' early days, plus a few violent, ably drawn cartoons by persons who take advantage of the Independents' liberality to exhibit political propaganda...