Word: draughtsman
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...pioneer in the movement belongs to Charles Ephraim Burchfield, 41. a tailor's son from Ash tabula Harbor, Ohio. In his childhood Burchfield found nothing so fascinating as tumble-down houses, freight trains, railroad tracks. Today most up-to-date museums have Burchfields.. Not so spectacular a draughtsman as Benton, Burchfield manages to invest his paintings with a calm if somewhat dismal dignity and an exceptionally acute feeling for light and space. He lives in an eight-room frame house outside Buffalo, N. Y. with his wife and five children, amuses himself by tending his garden and building frames...
Some of his aquatints of Hawaiian girls last week immediately reminded critics of Gauguin's sultry Tahiti wood carvings and oils. Unforced and simple, John Kelly's etchings proved him an able draughtsman. Hawaii visitors saw in his pictures a pleasing, accurate record of the island's scenery, water, natives and customs...
...story goes that a cartographer, mapping the central peninsula that jutted into Bering Strait from the Russian territory of Alaska, had no identification for the cape on its southern side. He simply made a note there: "? Name." In 1849 an erring draughtsman labeled the place Cape Nome...
...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...