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...Cooker. True enough, a lithography studio like Tamarind does resemble an industrial plant-it is full of polished stones, pots of ink, presses, reams of handmade paper. The artist's task, in the simplest form of lithography, is to draw his work on flat stone with a greasy crayon. A printer-artisan wets the stone with water, which the grease rejects, and then rolls on ink, which the grease accepts. When the artisan presses paper to the stone, the ink prints the work of art, and the process can be repeated as many times as the artist requires...
...certain kindred favored races so that they may survive and inherit the earth to the extinction of the lesser, weaker races." Theodore Roosevelt declared: "The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian." Poet-Essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes described the Indians as a "sketch in red crayons of a rudimental manhood. The white man hunts him down like the wild beasts of the forest, and so the red-crayon sketch is rubbed out, and the canvas is ready for a picture of manhood a little more like God's own image...
...BEAUCHAMP-Green, 15 West 57th. Crimson-stained harpies perform jungle witchery and nature attends the gleeful, macabre rites. The artist is the real sorcerer: his brash and bleeding colors, laid on with the free brushstroke of the German expressionists, are bewitching. Besides the oils, some drawings in pencil and crayon. Through...
...oboe and the bagpipe. From the State University of Iowa, she got a B.A. in art, an M.A. in oil painting, and a Phi Beta Kappa key. There, too, she married Composer John Gruen, now an art and music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. They have one crayon-crazy daughter, aged four...
Anshutz' greatest strength as a teacher was his belief that in painting "any style is correct if the man is master of it." Anshutz himself mastered several styles and mediums. Besides oils, he was at home with watercolors, pastels and crayon. He even had one brief fling with impressionism. So equipped, Anshutz could recognize important tendencies and strengths in his pupils, then draw these out and enlarge them. Four of his pupils were Robert Henri. George Luks, William Glackens and John Sloan, all destined to become city realists who dramatized the piercingly lonely everyday life of New York...