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...lines through the wax "ground" on a copper plate with a needle, then biting the exposed lines into the plate by dipping it in a bath of nitric acid. Few people know that the etcher's needle should never scratch the plate itself (unless he is making a drypoint). Depth of line for increased blackness is all done by action of the acid. A goose feather is the best possible tool for brushing away microscopic gas bubbles while the plate is in the bath. Much of the effect of Whistler's etchings is due to the fact that...
Also awarded last week were prizes for the college art currently on exhibition in Manhattan. Winners included: oil painting, Jean Elizabeth Wade of Yale; watercolor, C. E. Hewitt of Princeton; drypoint, Mildred Shute of Kentucky; sculpture, Robert Koepnick of Dayton Art Institute...
...Kreuger, Swedish match tycoon; 2) The Earl of Derby here for the Kentucky race; 3) U. S. Circuit Court Judge John Johnston Parker, Supreme Court rejectee; 4) Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor with a plea against curtailed Navy Yard employment; 5) Professor Enrico Glickenstein, Polish drypoint etcher; 6) Dr. William Oxley Thompson, president emeritus of Ohio State University; 7) Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico, asking for a $3,000,000 relief fund; 8) Charles C. Younggreen, president of the Advertising Federation of America and delegates to the Federation's Washington Convention; 9) Lewis...
...films to be presented Tuesday are: "Mediaeval Moderns", "Bedouins of the Sahara", "The Nesting of the Sea Turtles", "Elementary Animals", "The Etcher's Art", and "Drypoint--a Demonstration...
...last two are of a series being produced by the Foundation to illustrate the technique of several of the arts. "The Etcher's Art' will be shown only at the Cambridge performance while "Drypoint' will be limited to the Boston showings at the Fine Arts Theatre the afternoon and evening of Saturday, December...