Word: design
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibition of the paintings of Dr. Denman W. Ross. The paintings have a two-fold interest; in addition to their intrinsic merit as works of art, they have been produced as illustrations of the theories which Dr. Ross has developed in his scientific study of colour, representation and design, and which he has published in his well-known books, On Drawing and Painting, and The Painter's Palette. It is obvious, at once, that these two points of view and interests are really one. It is because of Dr. Ross understanding of the craft of painting, and because...
...picture of the Lady Sewing is permeated with a sweet sentiment and a dellcate tenderness. The organization, both in design and in color is remarkably stable and satisfying. The picture suggests the light and colour of Vermeer, and was certainly produced under his influence. The exhibition is clear evidence of an interest and delight in nature, life...
...Story: Designers last week exhibited in Manhattan (at the Art Centre show) silk dress fabric taking as motifs jazz bands, Fifth Avenue crowds, ticker tape, rollercoasters, etc. In similar designs are printed linens and other fabrics for drawing-room hangings. Graphic art is represented in the work of F. V. Carpenter. He has designed a pattern portraying Manhattan's shopping district with its pedestrians & automobiles. Other designers have used toboggan slides and umbrellas, massed lines, moving lines of busses and cars. Artist John Held Jr. has done a jazz band-round bald heads, heads with sparse hair, their owners...
...original design provided for a granite tablet, but the plan has been set aside for a temporary limestone setting until a place is chosen for a permanent monument...
...culminated this year in the opening of the New Fogg Museum With Mr. Norton giving a course in the history of fine arts--a course which, it is to be noted, still subordinates art to its relations with literature--and with another course being given in principles of design, the future of the study of the Fine Arts in Harvard University was well assured...