Word: landscapists
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...pictorial art into two simple classes: "Conservative" which looks like what it is supposed to be and "Modernist," which does not. Last year the "Conservatives" were indignant when a "Modernist" won the Art Salon sweepstakes prize. This year they managed to elect a judge of their own choosing, Landscapist Frederic Tellander of Chicago. Great was their chagrin when Judge Tellander looked over the lot, selected River Bend by Marvin Cone, art instructor at Coe College, Cedar Rapids. Good friend of famed Grant Wood, Artist Cone showed that eminent Iowan's stylistic influence. River Bend was a sweep of stream...
...When the landscapist was laying out the football field in Princeton's Palmer Stadium in 1914. he decided that the sides of the field should be banked, started grading by digging a deep marginal moat. Belatedly it was pointed out that the proposed embankment would be dangerous to footballers forced out of bounds. Thereupon, the moat was turned into a cinder track whose unusual depth of ballast surprised one & all by providing a remarkably springy surface. Thus an accident accounts for what many a runner considers the world's fastest track, a smooth, black 440-yd. oval...
...court, he made French the court language, sent Russian artists, most of whom were serfs, abroad to study, imported droves of Italian, German, French craftsmen. At least four Britons brought in were among the founders of Russian secular art: James Walker, John Augustus Atkinson, Edward Miles and Landscapist Richard Brompton...
Murdered. Frank Reed Whiteside, 33, treasurer of the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, landscapist; by unknowns, in Philadelphia. Neighbors heard him answer his door bell, heard a shot fired (through the heart), heard scuffling, fleeing feet. Apparent motive: robbery...
Upon the Ile de France have labored Pierre Patou, Lalique (perhaps the most brilliant living worker in glass), Sue et Mare (among the smartest decorators in Paris), the daring landscapist Jaulmes, the sculptor Pommier and other chief exponents of L'Art Moderne. What did Mr. Herrick find they had done upon the Ile de France...