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Victorian England produced fuzzy, sentimental painting, and a lot of sharp and funny drawing. The drawing has lasted better. Three of her ace draftsmen, George Cruikshank, Richard Doyle and Sir John Tenniel, are the subjects of three books published last week in England (by Art & Technics Ltd.). U.S. readers, familiar with only one string of each artist's bow (like Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland), will find the drawings a wonderland of surprises...
...Press, Sloan, like Fellow Draftsmen Glackens and Shinn, sketched the fires, suicides and parades which news photographers cover today. Of necessity they learned to select story-telling details and to set them down recognizably and fast. Later, under the leadership of Painter Robert Henri, they did much the same thing in oils, and dared to call it art. That threw the academic art world of the day into a righteous rage. Henri's group became the "Ashcan School," hooted at by almost everyone...
...best paid and most featured new girls, Smart signed on a pair of Hollywood studio draftsmen named Joseph De Mers and Fritz Willis, who work mostly as a team, passing the drawing board back and forth. Says De Mers: "I paint a while and he paints a while." Every month for the next three years they have contracted to produce, individually or together, five versions of the girl (see cut). Their fee: $1,000 a throw...
...union leaders whom he frequently distrusts. It also means surrender of his self-esteem as an individualist. So most scientists and engineers have shunned C.I.O.'s union (Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists & Technicians) as well as A.F. of L.'s (International Federation of Technical Engineers, Architects & Draftsmen...
Next, Camouflage. When war came, President Kleiser desperately cast about for jobs to keep his 1,000 painters, artists, draftsmen busy. Why not camouflage...