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...such a penetration into a new field inspired other ventures in landscape. There comes Hendrik Goltzins, the engraver, whose two woodcut prints in great boldness of line, alone of all the early examples could be safely hung beside the strength of the "Cannon." There also was Augustin Hirschvogel, the etcher, whose print betrays the limited grasp of landscape forms in his day and there is Lautensack who loses himself in the struggle to record the whole tangle of a forest...
...Sculptor Epstein, not long after he settled in London, received his first big commission through the kind offices of Etcher Muirhead Bone: 18 colossal figures for the façade of the British Medical Association's new building in the Strand. For his theme he chose The Birth of Energy and his uncompromising, starkly modeled figures represented such ideas as Primal Energy (a nude man blowing the breath of life into an atom), The Brain (a figure holding a winged skull), Manliness (a figure whose physical attributes were very obvious). Preachers and conservative editors roared denunciation...
When Artist Cadmus talks about his dependence on the U. S. Navy, he means its 78-year-old veteran Admiral Hugh Rodman. In 1933, already spotted by scouts as a promising etcher with a strong satiric bent, Paul Cadmus returned from two years in Majorca, found commissions hard to get. From the Public Works of Art Project he received an average of $35 a week to stay in his own studio, paint what he liked. What he liked was a group of U. S. sailors having raucous and somewhat indecent fun with their molls on Riverside Drive. He called...
Other works are by Robert Nanteuil, one of the foremost French artists of the seventeenth century, Stephano Della Bella, an Italian etcher, Vaillant, a less familiar French artist, and Jose Ribera, a Spaniard...
...Besides the fact that he makes a specialty of snow, Etcher Young is remarkable in that he is probably the only well-known artist who was once in the restaurant business. Born Charles Jacob Jung in Bavaria 55 years ago, Artist Young was taken as an infant to Manhattan, followed his father into the catering trade, was manager for 22 years of a newshawks' and politicians' restaurant in Manhattan's Chambers Street. Pink & white, still professionally appreciative of good cooking, Artist Young has his studio in the basement of his Weehawken Heights, N. J. home, gets from...