Word: etchers
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...difference between Mlle. Lenglen and Helen Wills is probably the difference between their thyroid glands. Suzanne Lenglen is a prima donna. Every stroke, to her, is an emergency which she must meet in some sensational manner. Helen Wills goes about the business of tennis as calmly as an etcher making a design. The Frenchwoman cannot play unless people are watching...
Last week the will of the late Joseph Pennell, etcher, was made public. Mr. Pennell stipulated that upon the death of his wife Elizabeth* everything he owned - capital, manuscripts, books, paintings, patents - should become the property of the U. S. government. The capital, probably amounting to $250,000, shall be known...
...very irritant that made him take fire at seeing, as if for the first time, the walls and towers, monuments of a fierce physical necessity, that industrial life was evolving here. The City of New York spoke its rocky sermon to him and he, better than any other etcher of this time, understood what it was saying. "When you go out on the ferry to Staten Island," he wrote, "there is one moment on the trip when, looking back to Manhattan, you see the city cleft by the canyon of Broadway. I say that the Grand Canyon has nothing...
...draw what he saw he discarded detail, the etcher's common resource. He used mass and shadow as a sculptor uses them, giving what is so hard to give in any two-dimensional art?the sense of a core, an inner heart of energy whose force, diffused through the etching, creates the thing seen, tower or bridge or buttress, as a piece of inevitable logic, the peremptory gesture of a hidden impulse. When he drew a crane he was not interested in making an accurate picture of a piece of machinery used to lift stones; the crane became as vital...
Died. Joseph Pennell, 65, famed etcher and illustrator; in Brooklyn, of pneumonia...