Word: crayon
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...Pittsburgh short, suave, russet-haired Gerald L. (for Leslie) Brockhurst served on the jury for the 1939 Carnegie Inter national Exhibition. And in Manhattan two exhibitions of his work were opened which showed him equally proficient with brush, crayon, etcher's needle. At the Knoedler Galleries was a loan exhibition of his portraits and drawings. The Arthur Harlow Galleries showed the first complete exhibition of his etchings. With his projected English commissions canceled or postponed "for the duration," Artist Brockhurst, whose deafness kept him out of World War I, planned to paint portraits...
Posterity will be indebted to Augustus John for the great lineaments of many of Europe's great men. His etching of Yeats as a young man is already famous. His crayon drawing of the late T. E. Lawrence in Arab headdress gives that long-jawed little man all his well-earned dignity. When the practical Lord Leverhulme, soap king of England, cut the head out of John's portrait of him in 1920 so he could get it in his safe, most of the artists and art dealers in London went on strike for 24 hours...
...imagination, child art has lately become a fascinating affair. Muddlers who hold either view as occasion in Manhattan demands found occasion last week to hold the second. On the walls of the big mezzanine galleries of Rockefeller Center's International Building were posted more than 1,000 crayon, tempera and water color drawings by children in 530 U. S. and Canadian schools, an exhibition sponsored by the public-school art directors of 30 cities...
...even eaten with impunity. A big sheet of glazed paper is dipped in water, spread smooth on a table, and gobs of color are dropped on it. The child then swirls the mixture over the paper with both hands, fingers, even forearms, continually creating new designs. Having no crayon or brush to cramp his fingers the child relaxes. Out of his tactile reverie emerge elaborate, rhythmic designs and fantastic forms, which artists admire and psychologists value as a medium of release from nightmares and other oppressions...
...several centuries five are represented here. The accomplishment of the sixteenth can be seen in aportrait by Francois Clouet, of the seventeenth in a wash drawing of landscape by Claude. The special character of the eighteenth, in attitude as in drawing is revealed in a series of red crayon studies by Watteau and Fragonard, Boucher and Greuze...