Word: etcher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph Pennell, famed U. S. etcher, likes to organize societies and lecture them when they are organized, on etching and engraving. If there are no societies to address, he is glad to speak in a museum or an art school. Often too he will put what he has to say into print, writing about his friendship with Whistler or this artist or that. Among his friends, it appears is George Bernard Shaw. Last Sunday Mr. Pennell talked about Mr. Shaw in The New York Times magazine section...
...unpretentious person. When you know that he devotes months to the perfection of a type of story that most Saturday Evening Post writers concoct in a fortnight, you add conscience to his qualities. It is thus that you find him, and have pleasure in his work-a shrewd, painstaking etcher of his fellows, who dilutes the acid of irony with the milk of human kindness...
Reproductions of pencil sketches by the American etcher, Lester G. Hornby, are now, on exhibition in the Print Room of the Fogg Art Museum. They have been presented to the Museum by John T. Spaulding...
...trusted head hostler and, a year later, bore him a son, John. This boy went to school till he was 17, was then bound apprentice to a surgeon, read Wordsworth, Byron, Spenser, looked into Chapman's Homer, wrote some stumbling poetry, made friends with Editor Leigh Hunt, Painter Haydon, Etcher Joseph Severn, Publish- er's Reader Woodhouse. Although lie was only five feet high, the beauty of his countenance and the vivacity of his manners charmed all who met him; the more discerning of his acquaintance found in his verse the evidence of great talent. He, happy in the promise...
Joseph Pennell, famed painter, etcher, published* a gasconade, prefaced with a diatribe?Etchers and Etching. Writing it, gall scored his pen; gloom puckered his mouth. In his foreword, he denounces, derides all others who have written about etching. The curator of prints in the British Museum, he is demolished; "poor old Hamerton" (Hamerton whose works have long been the only authority on etching), he is spurned. He employs many great names, many swaggering pronouns. "Whistler," says Etcher Pennell, "Whistler and I. . . ." "Whistler and me. . . ." Down the list of the world's immortal etchers he runs his pen, here scratching...