Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fontnouvelle confer membership in the Legion of Honor upon, four U. S. pioneers in the field-Willis Rodney Whitney, General Electric's vice president who invented the radiotherm (high frequency electric device for creating artificial fevers in sick people); Charles Franklin Kettering, General Motors vice president, who designed the hypertherm (air-conditioned hot box in which sick people may develop artificial fever) ; Dr. Walter Malcolm Simpson of Dayton, Ohio, Mr. Kettering's good friend who helped design the hypertherm, and who has written authoritatively on the use of artificial fevers in curing gonorrhea and early syphilis...
Raoul Dufy has never lost his enthusiasm for Matisse's brilliant color and uncanny sense of design, but unlike other Matisse disciples he did not imitate any part of his technique. Raoul Dufy, and later his Brother Jean, worked out a sort of shorthand of painting with rapidly sketched trees and houses blocked in colors deliberately off-register. This genre has been seized avidly by smartchart editors and advertisers. Museums know his work: even the Metropolitan Museum of Art has a Dufy...
Because he is president of the National Academy of Design, successful Artist Jonas Lie thought it would be diplomatic to send a landscape, priced at $2,500. So that was also on hand with more than 1 ,000 other exhibits by more than 400 exhibitors, when the Society of Independent Artists ("No Jury, No Prizes") opened its doors for its 21st annual show. In 1917 when Artist John Sloan and a few friends founded the Independents' Show it filled a vital need. The National Academy was neolithic in its conservatism, few dealers would handle the men who were attempting...
...must protest your incomplete reporting on "Art" in the March 22 issue, or weren't all the returns in when you went to press? You make no mention of who won the other $700 prize given by the National Academy of Design, which went to Sidney Laufman of New York for the best landscape by an American born painter...
...mind to import a dry style of my own from Europe," he declared when questioned about his plans. "I am more concerned with showing the method of approach to architecture." The eminent German architect asserted that he would like to stress the practical element in design here, since modern architecture is becoming more and more interrelated with the problems of actual construction...