Word: draftsman
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...often drawn and painted, John is a master technician with an extraordinary, romantic grasp of character. Born at Tenby in 1878 of parents variously described as Welsh or gypsy or both, he entered London's severe Slade School at 5 and quickly became the most brilliant draftsman in a shoal which included Sir John Lavery and the late Sir William Orpen...
...Berlin coincided with the opening of three simultaneous exhibitions of her work in Manhattan. Whether or not the rumor was a bit of gratuitous promotion, visitors to the three shows needed no prodding to deplore Nazi treatment of the artist. No abstractionist. Kathe Kollwitz is a weighty, marvelously skilled draftsman in the great 19th-Century line. It is her subject matter, always proletarian, bitterly naturalistic and sorrowful, that rules her out of the "Strength through Joy" school...
Born in Manhattan, Artist Evergood had his schooling at Cambridge University and London's famous Slade School. He is a hulking man of 36 with wide, intolerant brown eyes, childish brown hair and a hint of mustache. A strong draftsman with a rough sense of pictorial humor, Artist Evergood has been getting stronger and rougher right along. Last year his Art on the Beach caused fist fights in Australia where it was shown in an Evergood exhibition. Later it was purchased by Melbourne's National Gallery...
...rising from its ruins, had become the centre of excitement. Richardson's successor as No. i U. S. architect was an immaculate, brown-eyed little French-Irishman of haughty brilliance named Louis Henry Sullivan. Young Frank Wright had not been in Chicago a year before he was a draftsman in the office of Adler & Sullivan...
...show which opened last week was a year ahead of the time the artist had planned to give it. Among 37 paintings and drawings were the first Gershwin still-life, done in 1929, several pen-and-ink drawings which showed that the Jazz King had made himself a sensitive draftsman by 1931, and later work in oils. Good pictures...