Word: copyists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...irresistible is the Mona Lisa, it happened again last week, when an unframed Mona Lisa by Mrs. Elizabeth Tinker Elmore, New York copyist, was stolen from the fourth floor parlors of the public library in Birmingham...
...goal for the long years of waiting it required, so to Manhattan's National Bank of Commerce he wrote, and in 1885 he became a Commerce employe. His job was copying letters; his salary $520 per annum. But while many a bank clerk was copying letters perfunctorily, wearily, Copyist Alexander was studying and understanding the letters that flowed from his pen. If Manhattan was Alexander's Rome, then the letters he copied were his Epistles to the Romans...
Alceo Dossena lives in Rome, where for years he has sculped in Classical and Renaissance styles. With the secrecy of an alchemist he produces the effect of century-long erosions on his statuary. Alceo insists that he is only a copyist. But he has a Greek Athena in the Cleveland Museum, a Renaissance tomb in the Boston Museum, a chastely draped Grecian maiden in the Metropolitan. The guardians of all these palladiums have been duped. Now they are chagrined...
...Copyist Alceo annoys the Metropolitan much less than Manhattan Critic Walter Pach, who recently published a book called Ananias (Harper's). Biblical Ananias lied to God. Artistic Ananias deceives himself and the public, lies to Apollo. He paints handsome, superficial canvases for popular and social success. U. S. museums, states Critic Pach, are full of them, particularly the Metropolitan.* What rather should happen is the cultivation of public taste by impact with fresh, live modes of expression...
PERELLA - William J. Locke -Dodd, Mead ($2). In Florence the most eminent art critic is, of course, king. So when lost-in-thought Professor Sylvester Gayton trips into the Pitti or Uffizi, guards jump to attention, bow low, chatter thereafter of the lucky copyist whose work he has chanced to inform with the perfect suggestion...