Word: exhibitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Mrs. Phoebe Stabler, woman exhibitor in the Royal Academy: "Whether centuries of repression are responsible for the fact that women have produced no great art, or whether the fact that they have produced no great art is responsible for their centuries of repression is a de batable question. In the past, women have made children instead of art the end of their creative impulse. In the future, there is no reason why the world should not see great women painters." A swaggering Rubens in rolled stockings? A Titian in a toque...
...conservative Societé des Artistes Franç is opened at the Grand Palais with the rumble of temperament customary at a Parisian Exhibition. F. A. Bridgman, dean of American artists in France, found his canvases hung in a corner so dark as almost to be indiscernible. Another American exhibitor removed all his items. Mario de Goyon, French artist, found one of his pictures lying in a corner, entirely forgotten...
...action dribbles along without very much happening except Arlie's marriage to an ingenious paradox--a moving picture exhibitor who can't make money. Arlie, of course, becomes very wise to the ways of the world, and "developes" as fast as the most hopeful novelist could ask. She runs away form her second husband and, in a fit of abstraction, nearly settles down to a third Not from moral motives--that would be too Victorian--but merely for her own selfish happiness, she at length decides to return to home and her legal mate. Thus the book ends...
...youngest exhibitor whose works have ever been hung in the Paris Salon is an American girl-Marsue Burrows, New York, 15. She had two miniatures accepted in the Spring exhibition which opened April 28. Miss Burrows began the study of art on her arrival in Paris in March, 1922. Her father, Frank Burrows, is connected with the Irving Bank-Columbia Trust Company, Manhattan...
...exhibitor of a painting depicting Mr. Bryan and other prohibitionists interrupting the "marriage at Cana of Galilee"-where Christ turned water into wine-was held guilty in a Manhattan magistrate's court of an act which " openly outrages public decency." The decision was based upon a proposition which most lawyers regard as long ago abandoned-that Christianity is "part of the common law of the land." From this it was deduced that there was at least an outrage on public decency within the meaning of the law, because, to paraphrase the court's language, "it seriously offends...