Word: draughtsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cartoonist Low is a unique combination of a student of contemporary politics and a superb draughtsman. A passionately sin cere democrat, he is also a hard worker...
...photographing. It is in this exhibit that the startling simplicity and clarity of the work is best brought out, the infinite and delicate use of detail, and the extraordinarily expressive quality of the animals and other figures. Every one of the artists cooperating with Disney is a master draughtsman in his own right. The drawing is uniformly fine as is shown in the sheet of animal figures and in the background work for "Snow White," or in Donald Duck trying to open a package. Characterization has also reached just as high a place as may be seen in the model...
...this time, of course, news has filtered through to the masses that the real Will Rogers was killed in an airplane crash in Alaska in 1935. What causes Willie Rogers anxiety is that there are two other Will Rogerses in the field-a Connerville doctor and an Oklahoma City draughtsman...
...bourgeois. Daumier, who worked hardest & longest, died blind and penniless in 1879 in a house given to him by Corot. No cartoonist of Daumier's power, few painters so well endowed or so frustrated, have lived since. Because he was a great humanitarian as well as a great draughtsman, his work, like that of Goya, has had its significance renewed in a post-War era as turbulent as his own. The largest as well as the most interesting exhibition of Daumier yet held in the U. S. will open this week in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Museum...
Even if it were not one of the cheapest and easiest methods of reproduction of a draughtsman's work, lithography would be popular with artists because of the purely tactile pleasure of drawing in crayon on smooth stone. Since its discovery 139 years ago, this youngest of the great printmaking processes has been a valued sideline of many an important European and U. S. painter, the mainstay of at least one indubitable master, Honore Daumier. In spite of having cluttered up the earth with a God's plenty of "chromos,"† it has remained a fine as well...