Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...painters recognized no distinction between commercial and "pure" art-and when many took advertising commissions. Inevitably dominating the show, as he did the posters of his time, was the work of stunted, aristocratic Henri-Marie-Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa, who put his hand to almost every variety of graphic art. But also shown were works by Lautrec's finest contemporaries: Jean Louis Forain, Alexandre Théophile Steinlen, James Ensor, Jules Chéret, Albert Guillaume, F. A. Cazals (one poster showed Poet Paul Verlaine at an exhibition...
England's 18th Century master of graphic razz and uproar, Caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson, last week enlivened the Boston art scene: some 100 selected Rowlandsons hung on the walls of the Boston Public Library. They came from the Library's Albert H. Wiggin* Collection of Prints, Drawings, and Books-one of the world's finest...
...only other newsman at Wayland when Hudson arrived was the editor of the Wayland weekly Register. Hudson talked first with a Wayland station employe, got an estimate of the casualties, plus a graphic, first-person eyewitness description of what had happened...
Early Tuesday morning the pages of this issue were set up in type in Philadelphia. A camera crew was on hand to make photo graphic negatives of each page as fast as the last proofs could be corrected. A 39-ounce packet of these films is rushed aboard the first transcontinental plane. And with any kind of luck in the weather, by early Thursday morning our printers in Honolulu should have received the negatives and be at work making the press plates to run off the edition by offset lithography...
Surprise number of the program was Dr. LeCorbeiller's unveiling of his new secret weapon, the Super Band-pass Distortion Eliminator, Deluxe Model. Dr. LeCorbeiller explained his invention in his usual clear manner, so that everyone could understand. The audience was mystified. It was a graphic demonstration of Dr. LeCorbeiller's favorite subject, Signal Distortion, in which, from a mere bull fiddle, the inventor produced the sound of a complete brass band...