Word: draughtsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art wanted to launch a peace campaign, it had ample material on hand in the foregoing excerpts from the etchings of Otto Dix which were put on public exhibition this week. Otto Dix is a skilful German draughtsman who served in the War, remembered it bitterly. Visitors turned away from some of his clinical dissections of haphazard horrors, unaware that in an upstairs office Museum Director Alfred H. Barr Jr. had concealed other Dix drawings considered too strong for public exhibition...
...squalid hole in Belgium as a missionary. There too he went too far, scandalized the churchly authorities by giving away his money, his clothes, his bed. Fired again, he stayed on with his poor people, began to draw them and send his sketches to Brother Theo. A draughtsman in a Brussels garret taught him the laws of perspective; the rest he learned for himself...
...saved all his tips so that his boy need never learn to balance a tray or memorize an order. George Frei Jr. wanted to be an architect. George Sr. sent him to the Harlem Vocational School, then to art classes in Cooper Union, then, while he worked as a draughtsman, to New York University. Last week a committee of Manhattan architects, including white-thatched Whitney Warren, Joseph Freedlander and Ely Kahn, awarded George Frei Jr. the two-and-a-half year Paris scholarship of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects for a project to house a National Banking Board...
...School Days," "Going for the Cows," "One More Shot." Between 50,000 and 100,000 were made and cast between 1860 and 1900. They sold for $15 to $25 each. Gentle John Rogers was born in Salem, Mass, in 1829. He worked in a machine shop, later as a draughtsman and surveyor, but modeling in clay was his deepest interest. His family always insisted that John Rogers was a self-taught sculptor. In 1858 he had saved enough pennies for a trip to Italy - not originally to study but to rest his overstrained eyes on the long sea trip...
...electricity with a tiny fixture in the ceiling of each room. Encouraged by the success of these, Delano & Aldrich talents were bent last week on two new models: a larger business block with a restaurant and grocery on the ground floor, and an even larger Georgian mansion. Chief Draughtsman W. Bowman enthused: "It has a lovely staircase." These will sell at slightly higher prices...