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Swedish and Norwegian glass and metal work fill another case, the exhibition illustrating what effect can be produced by proportion alone, without decoration. All colored objects, such as pottery and porcelain, are exhibited separately, and include candlesticks, plates, and a cigarette box decorated with enamel...
...with a Victor typewriter that Vice President Al Buhler, The Victor Adding Machine Co. sent me. My feet rest on a choice "Quaker" rug that Dwight L. Armstrong. Vice President The Armstrong Cork Co. sent me and I marvel at the whiteness of the Murphy Da Cote enamel on the window and door trim that Salesmanager H. H. Pratt, Murphy Varnish Co. sent me - while Doyle Advertising Manager The Lloyd Mfg. Co. rocks contentedly in a trick rockerless rocker Lloyd Loom Chair he sent...
Died. Maurice Fromkes, 59, Polish-born U. S. artist noted for his paintings of Spaniards; in Paris. In 1908 he won the Salmagundi Club portrait prize. His technique was "hard, dry, brilliant, with an enamel-like brilliance." His portrait of the late Cardinal Merry del Val hangs in the Vatican...
...late great writer and of others not so great slide and fade across the pages of Robert Nathan, sometimes linger there. Anatole France's is the biggest shadow; lesser ones, not so clear in outline, resemble O. Henry or Richard Harding Davis. The Orchid is like a miniature in enamel: ingenious, smooth, fitted cunningly into small spaces. It is not. a novel but a satirical fable, a grownup fairy story...
...13th Century referred to by Victorian professors as the dark ages, U. S. collections have scarcely anything but a few fragments of Romanesque sculpture, an occasional porphyry column or bit of mosaic. This period is completely covered by the Welfenschatz. Earliest of the pieces is an 8th Century enamel plaque bearing a pop-eyed head of Christ. Latest is a silver relic cross made in 1483. Most important artistically is a casket reliquary in the form of a Byzantine church of gold, walrus ivory and brilliant enamel which once held the dried skull of St. Gregory...