Word: easel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eccentricities (he once proposed marriage to a neighbor the first time he met her because he liked the tone of her violin), his essentially happy life, spent doing what he most wanted to do. "The artist," Ryder once said, "needs but a roof, a crust of bread and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance...
...composition. Their frescoes are in the standard historical vein, grey and red their predominant colors. Contemporary, unlike their murals, are their canvases now on show at the New York and San Francisco World Fairs. But, says Eddie Millman: "In murals alone can art reach the large masses of people. . . . Easel paintings are too personal, too limited in appeal. . . . Painting, to be really functional, must be taken from small exclusive groups and thrown open to everyone...
...once decided to paint Kiki, Queen of the Paris models, favorite of Artists Pascin, Kisling, Soutine. After meticulously arranging her pose and drapes, sitting at his easel, squinting at her, measuring her with his thumb, dabbing at his canvas so laboriously and long that Kiki was sure he had painted a good likeness, he declared his work done. Kiki ran around and looked at it. He had painted a great, bleak barn. "Perhaps," says catlike, sleek, sophisticated Kiki, "perhaps it was my farm-girl appearance...
...Anatol Shulkin, a pale, round-faced, baldish little professional known principally for his murals, had an exhibition of easel work at the Midtown Galleries just two years later than it had been scheduled. Reason: two summers ago his summer place in New Jersey burned to the ground and ten years' work burned with it. The Shulkin mettle was proved in several smooth, strong, pleasant figure compositions notable for harmonizing brilliant colors without making them yell...
...more than 150,000 projects up to Oct. 1, 1937. Visible to the naked eye were 11,106 new public buildings (including 115 new armories), 43,870 miles of new highways, 19,272 new bridges, more than 11,500 miles of new roadside drainage ditches and 54,244 drawings, easel paintings, murals and sculptured works. Not so obvious were 128,057,654 school lunches served, 18,272,529 books catalogued and 24,099,607 rodents destroyed...