Word: graphical
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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These fragments, hastily executed in pencil, brush, pen, or water-color, present the most graphic pictorial record of the Yankee in France that we remember to have seen. It is of slight importance that, in such drawings as "Home" and "Her Boy Too", we can trace plainly the Style of Poulbot: or that the wash drawings entitled, "The Gardener's Cottage", "Toul Sector Days", and "The Town of Cuffles", remind us forcibly of Bruce Bairnsfather. The fact is that, missing alike the delicate expressiveness of the French draughtsman and the whimsicality of the Britisher, Mr. Baldridge strikes a note...
...competition, open to all citizens of the United States, in the making of patriotic posters and advertisements to stimulate the buying of War Savings Stamps has been announced by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Prizes totalling $2,000 will be given for six best drawings, and there is to be an exhibition of 100 or more selected entries. The competition will close on April 25. The form in which contributions are executed is optional with the competitor. The results will be publicly announced...
Additional information, as well as the W. S. S. Bulletin, which gives facts concerning the War Savings Stamps and explains the object of their sale, may be obtained by writing to "W. S. S. Competition, American Institute of Graphic Arts, 119 East 19th Street, New York City." The text or wording on contributions is optional, but the W. S. S. mark which will be sent on application should appear, and all entries should be sent charges prepaid and carefully packed...
...late Grenadier Guards, is the author of "Washed by Four Seas," "The Danger Zone of Europe," "La Turquie et ses Voisins," and has been military and diplomatic correspondent of the London Evening News. He has also acted as special correspondent in the Balkans for the London Times and the Graphic...
...Nicolette," is a charmingly pictorial evocation of vague literary atmosphere, a mood induced by the tale rather than an essay dealing with it. The style suffers a little in places from the sort of poeticizing that marred Oscar Wilde's "Poems in Prose," but is one the whole graphic and full of sensuous charm. The first paragraph might have been written by Turgenieff, so vivid is it and so full of the very scent and rustle of a landscape...