Word: godfrey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...against Italy. By a tremendous majority the South African Senate voted its undying support of the League of Nations, its defiance of the Conqueror of Ethiopia. And in London was Oswald Pirow. He was received in audience by Edward VIII. His Majesty's discerning former private secretary, Sir Godfrey Thomas, dined with Oswald Pirow, both being guests of the South African diamond tycoon, Sir Abe Bailey. Mr. Pirow called on the Secretary for Dominions, dry and cheerful little Son Malcolm MacDonald. Mr. Pirow made the official rounds of London and to intimates he confided that he thought his welcome...
...Godfrey, son of a jobber salesman, was too tall and thin to play football in Grand Rapids (Mich.) High School. He decided he wanted to be a painter. He studied drawing in Grand Rapids Junior College, went to Chicago in 1930 to take commercial art at the American Academy. Year later he was back in Grand Rapids living on his family. The Grand Rapids Art Gallery hung a couple of his paintings and he sold a few water colors from a concession booth at Chicago's Century of Progress. Finally he realized that the only place for an artist...
...Godfrey quit the Art Students' League before the end of his second month. He did not want to be a little imitator. He and his roommate decided that what they needed was a studio on Washington Square. They got it, but that did not seem to make Rob Godfrey an artist either. Later he moved in with some friends. When they needed the spare bed for out-of-town guests he spent the night riding subways. Once he got a portrait commission, but he had no studio to paint in. Nonetheless he and Anneliese Conrad, a pretty little German...
...Godfrey went to see it in March, thought it was the least impressive painting in the show. He was vastly surprised and delighted when the Montclair (N. J.) Art Gallery asked to borrow it. A little later the Montclair people wrote to say that his picture had disappeared from the show. Last week the news came out. Of the Academy's 278 paintings, many of them by famed artists, 25-year-old Rob Godfrey's portrait of Anneliese had been the only one picked for purchase by the great Metropolitan Museum...
Criticized for their penchant for spending vast sums on time-tested Titians and Rembrandts while ignoring living artists, the august Metropolitan's directors have lately begun to take a few chances on moderns. But they do not take very big chances, and last week dazed Rob Godfrey refused to reveal the "very modest sum" the Metropolitan had paid for his portrait. "It might." said sensible Anneliese Godfrey, "cause clients to want to have their portraits done for the same price, or cheaper...