Word: easel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told the story was at a gathering in the Manhattan studio of an etcher where Nunsoe Due de la Terrace had not only had his portrait etched but where he himself unveiled the work by yanking a rubber mouse attached to the cord attached to the curtain on the easel (TIME, Dec. 17)Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen's unofficial name is Duke. Last week, after reluctantly dismissing Greyhound Southball Moonstone, Collie Bellhaven Black Lucason, Sealyham Gunside Babs of Hollybourne and Pomeranian Wonder Son, Judge Alfred B. Maclay ordered Duke and Mrs. M. Hartley Dodge...
...began to draw seriously when he was about 15, in the studio of his elder brother, a designer of stained glass windows. He won scholarships at the Royal Academy art schools, traveled in Italy, Germany and France. At the age of 23 he returned to London, set up his easel as a portrait painter...
...Frank Salisbury married Miss Greenwood. The portrait of the future Mrs. Salisbury won him a commission to do a portrait of Sir Joseph Gilbert which in turn brought him a commission from Sir Charles Lawes-Writtewronge. After that Frank Salisbury was made. Since then he has propped up his easel before so many of the world's potentates, that it is difficult to understand why he has never been knighted or admitted to the Royal Academy. He has painted King George six times...
Benton, in his murals and easel paintings, earnestly and almost ferociously strives to record a contemporary history of the U. S. A short wiry man with an unruly crop of black hair, he lives with his beauteous Italian wife and one small son in a picture-cluttered downtown Manhattan flat. To critics who have complained that his murals were loud and disturbing. Artist Benton answers: "They represent the U. S. which is also loud and not 'in good taste.' " "I have not found," he explains, "the U. S. a standardized mortuary and consequently have no sympathy with that school...
Patient on his haunches sat Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace of Blakeen until Etcher West tossed him a rubber mouse. To the mouse was attached a string which was attached to a curtain which was attached to an easel. Passionately the poodle pounced on the mouse, pulled the string, drew the curtain and unveiled a first proof of Etcher West's latest work: a portrait of Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace of Blakeen...