Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There should have been 1,691. But last minute scandal kept five pictures off Burlington House's chaste walls. Year ago one Mark Symons painted what the penny press described as the Picture of the Year. Not particularly well painted, harsh in color, it was a crucifixion with a Flanders battlefield as a background. There were modern British soldiers, gas masks, hand grenades and other impedimenta and it bore the imposing title "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?'' It brought him much publicity and many commissions. Feeling that there was a demand for this sort of thing, Artist...
...general, the tendency of France to outstrip America and England in modernistic productions is apparent. Marie Laurencin, whose covers of Vanity Fair are known in this country, has a few color lithographs which are really mid-Victorian in comparison with some of the work of her countrymen. Pablo Picasso may be seen in two colored etchings which are characteristic of his latest and more incomprehensible moments; George Braque and Andre Lurcat contribute to the confusion of one who would like very much to understand. On the other hand, Jules Pascin, whose career among the sordid elements of Paris closed...
...best according to good authorities. Diego Rivera, who is at present doing the mural paintings in the San Francisco stock exchange, has lent some fine lithographs to the Society for this show, as has Marie Laurencin, one of the younger French artists, who has done two striking lithographs in color...
Professor Carver has given Economics 8 since 1900 and the course has served as local color in two novels of college life; Robert Wolf's "Springboard" and Nathan's "Peter Kindred...
Peggy Bacon, a slant-chinned young woman with a keen eye, a quick brain, confined her satire at the Downtown Galleries last week largely to the critics and dealers of the New York art world. Shrewdly drawn pastels in good color showed Colyumist Heywood Broun towering like a huge bundle of dirty linen over a frail typewriter; Critic Royal Cortissoz (Herald Tribune) scowling over his goatee and cigar at a modernist painting; Murdock Pemberton (New Yorker) bilious in a blue suit; dimple-chinned Henry McBride (Sun) delicately balancing a teacup; and dozens more...