Word: easel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty years ago, when Amy McCormick was still Mrs. Edwin Shields Adams, wife of a broker now deceased, she sat down one day before an easel in the art class of Painter Ralph Clarkson. After a few hours' diligent effort, she found Tutor "larkson looking over her shoulder. "How long have you been studying?" asked he. She replied: "Since this'morning." "It looks it," observed Tutor Clarkson. Last week Painter Clarkson went to Mrs. Mc-Cormick's exhibition, found that in the last two decades his onetime pupil had learned much. She had studied under William Penhallow Henderson and several...
...calls his settings "not pictures, but images. . . ." But this solid knowledge of good theatre makes Jones's designs less effective on a gallery wall than on a stage. At one time Decorator Jones had a Christlike beard and a nice talent in portrait painting. He sacrificed whiskers and easel as his position in the theatre became more secure. What he had to show last week were frankly working drawings...
...snap-shots of the Rivierra, and scenes which must be familiar to every movie goer. As Miss Chatterton lights her twenty-fourth cigarette, by actual count, in a pleasant rural district with a cow, a goat, a horse (property of Paramount Picture Corporation), in strides Paul Lukas, with his easel under one arm. Mutual infatuation. Complications, of a very simple nature...
...walls of its new clubhouse. Eakins, a Philadelphian who had won prizes at the Centennial Exposition, was commissioned. Like most new Presidents, Mr. Hayes felt he had no time to give for sittings. Artist Eakins humbly suggested that the Chief Executive might allow him to set up his easel in the President's office and make a picture while the President worked. Mr. Hayes, an excellent if unimaginative man, was agreeable; he stripped off his coat (it was a typical Washington summer) and went on working...
Hardly had Captain Bairnsfather finished his interesting and highly amusing lecture, when the platform was stormed by a misguided group of souvenir hunters fighting to obtain the cartoons which he had drawn during the course of his lecture. In the melee which ensued, the easel was upset, and many of the drawings were torn to pieces by these pseudo-gentlemen, supposedly engaged in acquiring culture at Harvard...