Word: draughtsmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other times Typographer Goudy has been far more specific. His two major works, The Alphabet and Elements of Lettering, are required reading for all apprentice printers, advertising agents, architects' draughtsmen. He has no idea how long it may take him to design a new alphabet. One of his most successful fonts, Hadriano, started with a rubbing taken from an inscription in the Louvre when guards were not looking, finished by 3 a. m. the next morning...
...Kuhn, curator of the Museum, remarked that he considered German drawings far more interesting than German paintings, because the Teutons have always been superbly skillful while working in black and white, but rather out of place when using colors. "Durer, for example," he said "was one of the greatest draughtsmen the world has over soon. These pictures show the development of his work from the late Gothie style that first influenced him to the early Renaissance type to which he turned in his later years...
...important print collector Mr. Wiggin is. On view were 271 different works illustrating practically the entire career of the late great Jean-Louis Forain who, starting out as a bitter satirist of middle class life, at his death in 1931 was known as one of the greatest religious draughtsmen since Rembrandt. Mr. Wiggin's Forain collection is unmatched in the U. S., has only three peers in Europe: the Dresden Museum, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the London collection of Campbell Dodgson...
...draughtsmen in the main draw from models, not from life, whereas Mr. Arno, with television penetration visualizes his types while they are unconscious of his existence and presents them with a cinematic spontaneity and forceful pen and brush that in their presence we believe in their actuality...
...department of doll architecture is not only able but eager to make any tycoon's child happy with an exact model of her own home, working either from photographs or plans. Prices, they promise, will not be exorbitant. Unemployed draughtsmen and department stores are not the only people to benefit. Frames for the doll houses are made at Greenwich House Workshops, a semi-charitable institution to teach handiwork to New York children. Each doll house bears a Delano & Aldrich label, is a fine advertisement for the firm...