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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naval architect, mining engineer, president of Missouri's St. Joseph Lead Co. (largest U. S. lead producer); the William Lawrence Saunders medal, top award of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers. Born to well-to-do parents in New Jersey, Clinton Crane was first captivated by sailing, designed small boats and yachts, won the Seawanhaka cup four times, built the motorboat Dixie in which he made a world speed record. After studying naval architecture in Glasgow, he designed U. S. warboats for Philadelphia's William Cramp & Sons. Because St. Joseph Lead Co., in which his family...
...tapestry weavers. Flourishing when kings and noblemen wanted something ornamental to keep out the draughts which seeped through castle walls, their craft was dying in an age of steam heat and small apartments. What tapestry weaving needed, decided Mme Cuttoli, was a stiff shot in the arm of modern design as conceived by France's greatest living painters...
...convince them that their fluid daubings could be fittingly reproduced in silk and wool. Her first convert, five years ago, was Georges Rouault, onetime apprentice in a stained-glass factory. But the painters were simple to manage compared to the weavers. Those sensible artisans, with six centuries of conventional design and solid, forthright colors behind them, threw up their hands in horror at Rouault's grotesque figures and great splashings of brick red and blatant blue. "Mais non!" cried they. "We will not soil our looms." Art was only art, however, and a living was a living...
...introduction, caused Mme Cuttoli's 20th Century tapestries to be brought to the U. S. for their first public showing. No more than their 15th Century predecessors are they intended for the walls of the proletariat. Each square yard requires six to eight months' work; no design will be duplicated more than three times; prices will be fixed accordingly...
...reproduction, which measures about sixteen feet by ten feet, is a photographic print of a tracing made over the mosaic. Every detail of the design is clearly shown, and although no colors are brought out, yet there is some indication of the lights and darks of the coloring...