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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...
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...