Word: draftsmanship
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...drawings and water colors he has done in the last quarter-century went on display in Manhattan's Walker Galleries. Artist Robinson's first exhibit in a decade, it gave youngsters a chance to see what their elders already knew: that for spirit, satire and sound draftsmanship, none of his murals can touch his early sketches and cartoons...
According to the present schedule, Roscoe Pound will inaugurate the series November 1 with a talk on "The Economic Interpretation and the Law of Torts." Other speakers include: Sidney P. Simpson, "A Possible Solution to the Pleading Problem," November 15; Walter B. Leach, "A Study in Will and Trust Draftsmanship," December 6; Erwin N. Griswold, "Some State and National Boundaries," December 13; Livingston Hall, "Mistake of Law in Criminal Cases," January 10; Thomas R. Powell, "Some Aspects of American Constitutional Law," January 17; James A. McLaughlin, "Federal Governmental Regulation of Business," February 7; Zechariah Chafee, Jr., "Unfair Competition," February...
...Gruger became the mainstay of that magazine. The Post's romantic and period fiction by such experts as Joseph Herge-sheimer and Donn Byrne got half its atmosphere from Gruger's oldfashioned, deep-browed men and frail but credible ladies. Though limited in range, Gruger's draftsmanship and handling of dark and light masses could be compared with the French Masters Daumier and Forain. He never used a model. The kind of cheap cardboard on which he drew with carbon pencil and lamp black is now known as Gruger board...
...immensely successful Arthur William ("Brownie") Brown. As illustrator for Tarkington, Kelland and other light fictioneers, popular, saturnine Artist Brown made a cool Wall Street million before it melted down in 1929. At 58 he says he is doing it again. Other illustrators like to kid Brown about his draftsmanship, but the laugh is on them. There is some quality in his clean-cut youths and pretty girls that fits the American Dream...
...never painted a picture with the dramatic power of John Steuart Curry's Line Storm or Tornado. Critics have found his color and texture slapdash and harsh compared to that of Iowa's deliberate Grant Wood. But Benton's style, an exuberant combination of cartooning draftsmanship, affectionate realism and tightly organized, undulating pattern, is the most imaginative and distinct of the three...