Word: etchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...angular bleakness of rigor mortis. Three of his pages had to be done over because of small typographical errors. It took him two years of patient etching and hand-printing to turn out 60 copies. If he manages to sell half of them (at $200 a copy), Etcher von Ripper figures he can clear $1,500. Not much for two years of eyestraining labor, but, says von Ripper, whose ways with money are as fantastic as his etchings, "That will give me something to go along...
Nearly a century ago in England, an etcher named W. M. Egley Jun. covered an etching plate with cheery, squiggly figures, inscribed it: "A Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year to You," sent impressions to his friends. So far as is known, this was the first Christmas card. Today, in the U. S. alone, Christmas cards have become a $30,000,000-a-year industry. Artistically most cards are loathsome, crawling with tinsel, Scottie dogs and bilious greenery, but good U. S. artists have begun to muscle in on the trade...
...Etcher Joseph Pennell called it "that Greek garage." But the sun-colored classic shell of the Philadelphia Museum of Art is big enough to house the Parthenon in part of one wing. For 20 years, on its rock above the Schuylkill, it has been abuilding. Less than half of its seven-acre floor space is finished and open to the public. Even so, it is a notable museum. This week it became still more notable with the opening of a whole new Oriental wing...
...Tyrolean etcher, Peter Fingesten grew up in the litter of a studio. In his teens he turned to sculpture, wrangled with his teachers at the Berlin Academy for a couple of years before striking out on his own at 16. His sculptural characteristics: eyes sealed shut without any lid line showing, mouths that curve sinuously downward. A medium-sized concrete piece, practical Peter Fingesten figures, costs him only 50? for cement, 80? for other materials...
...featured Cuban President Laredo Bru is pálido (pale), the color of swarthy, hard-hitting Colonel Batista is blanco-rojo, or white-red. Last week Dr. Valderrama got his first sitting at the White House. Working with a box of pastel crayons open before him while a Viennese etcher made pencil sketches and the President talked, smoked, worked over his papers, Artist Valderrama studied the President's special color for an hour and fifteen minutes. Then he beamed, nodded, found the President "very good-very natural." When reporters asked him the color of President Roosevelt: "Natural rose with...