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...Baltimore. Adding designers, draftsmen, withdrawing more & more from designing to administer the business, Martin turned out better & better models in rapid succession. He swapped little information with other manufacturers, became known as a sombre lone wolf. From the Cleveland plant came the first plane built specifically for mail service, the first metal American monoplane, of which the Navy bought 36, the first bomber with an alloy-steel fuselage, of which the Navy bought...
...exhibition by a retrospective room full of Gibson Girls. Now 71 and long retired, high-collared, big-chinned "Dana" Gibson paints all day in a 59th Street studio but not a soul is permitted to see his work. Held in great disdain by the Pyle school as "hothouse" draftsmen, Gibson's followers James Montgomery Flagg and Howard Chandler Christy had their years of glory but are now meeting stiff competition...
...most devastating battles of black & white in contemporary drawing. Almost all other young illustrators are practiced hands at the slim, distracting figure - a subject which nearly monopolized this year's illustrators' exhibition, to the impoverishment of what Pyle or Gruger would have called illustration. Best young draftsmen : Al Parker, John Gannam, Harry Beckhoff of Collier's, Garrett Price, James W. Williamson...
French caricaturists like Debucourt and Vernet were more delicate if less vigorous draftsmen, though they early showed a fondness for scatological as well as lubricous humor. To such a gross commentary as Rowlandson's The Arch Duchess Marie Louise going to have her Nap (showing the future Empress of France in bed with Napoleon), Satirist Carle Vernet was able to reply with an incomparably more subtle study called Les Anglais a Paris, three figures of a girl, a fat boy, and a military popinjay which still contain nearly all the French have to say about the English character...
Feild first told of the working force in the studio, the artists, musicians, composers and draftsmen who effect the creation of such characters as Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Ferdinand the Bull, Snow White, and others. "More than 800 workers are in the studio," Feild explained; "all are working in productive...