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Word: colored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brilliant color of modern university life seems to be fading from a flaming crimson into the more delicate mauve of solidarity. Like opera girls and Memorial Hall dining room, the old traditions are becoming passe, for now the carefree Lothario who whisks by in his shining roadster must give way to the more sedate touring car of the happily married student with the wife and little strangers. In the coeducational University of Washington, marriage among the undergraduates is even being promoted by the faculty on the grounds that those who have the responsibility of a wife get better grades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HERE COMES THE BRIDE | 3/15/1929 | See Source »

Illustrations by George and Robert Cruikshank constitute the current exhibit in the Widener Memorial Room. A few water color drawings are shown, but the majority of the display consists of engravings made by these artists, sometimes original and sometimes copied from the paintings of other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS --and-- CRITIQUES | 3/14/1929 | See Source »

...Gilbert E. Fuller; or the "Postman"--M. Roulin, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Treat Paine II. There is vitality of drawing and an expression of energy in every line--a certain growing quality that must be recognized whether you like it or not. The handling of color is masterly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS -- and -- CRITIQUES | 3/12/1929 | See Source »

...level of quality. His "Still Life" by Matisse is a daring picture. The artist is interested only in colour and pattern. It is subtle and defies accepted rules. On analysis it proves, like some of the most interesting music of the period, to be made up of discords of color rather than harmonies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS -- and -- CRITIQUES | 3/12/1929 | See Source »

President and Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell have lent one of the interesting Monet's in the exhibition. It is an excellent example of Monet's scientific handling of color and of the artist's ability to express just what one sees at a glance

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS -- and -- CRITIQUES | 3/12/1929 | See Source »

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