Word: easel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Andre Durenceau and Mrs. Kay Kaplan are partners in painting. He does the work she gets for him. Last week his latest picture and her latest commission arrived in Manhattan in the form of a 2 ft. by 3 ft. easel painting of the Crucifixion (see cut). The work was a present from Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney to his beauteous wife Gwladys...
...piece bathing suit and crepe-soled tennis shoes Artist Olsen slips into the water. A 65-pound metal helmet is placed over his head and shoulders, attached to an air pump on board ship. He goes down 20 to 35 ft., takes with him a Monel steel tripod, easel, and palette spread with regular oil colors. He paints on 8 by 10 in. glass plates covered on both sides with primed canvas...
Astor, of the Fogg Museum, is used to better surroundings than Sarah. His easel length of German police, bred, as his name indicates, in the luxury of the more expensive paintings of the gallery, has a supreme confidence that Sarah can never attain...
...artists decorating public buildings at the flat rate of $35 per week. It was announced that not only strictly Federal buildings would be decorated by CWArtists but also any or all buildings into which Federal dollars were to be invested. The work need not be limited to murals. Easel paintings, statues, friezes, memorial tablets, prints, drinking fountains, even such a utilitarian idea as a new design for linoleum is permissible. Regional committees were appointed whose jobs would be to select artists actually in need, choose the buildings to receive their attentions, commission, inspect and approve preliminary sketches. The regional committee...
From needlework Aristide Maillol turned to painting, studied under Cabanel at the Beaux Arts in Paris. For ten years he slaved over an easel with remarkably little success. When he was middleaged, he carved one day a nude figure in wood. It seemed the most satisfactory work he had ever done, and from then on Aristide Maillol was a sculptor. Recognition came first from Germany where, just before the War, his calm, placid nudes were hailed with delight as 'the essence of Greece...