Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somewhere between the fancy counterfeits of fashion pictures and the buttocky satires of Reginald Marsh is the truth about the New York Working Girl's life & looks. Of her few sympathetic interpreters in art, the subtlest last week had an exhibition at Manhattan's Midtown Galleries...
...fast sketch done on the street, followed by a carefully composed etching. Models for her final, slowly and delicately built paintings are always girls found in the neighborhood, never professionals. The thing she feels about them and tries to communicate in her painting, she says, is their "mobility in life." the very fact that they do not belong irrevocably to a certain class, that anything may happen to them...
...that he couldn't make a living writing the kind of music he wanted to write. On his graduation from Yale in 1898 he served as a church organist, playing in Danbury, Conn., Bloomfield, N. J., and finally in Manhattan. Weekdays he plugged as a clerk for Mutual Life Insurance Co. Industrious and daring both as businessman and composer, Ives soon formed his own insurance managing agency, helped build it into one of the largest of its kind in the U. S. But Ives never let his business interfere with his composing. His evenings and holidays were spent...
Shrewd Charles Ives refuses to see anything strange about his unusual double life. Says he: "There can be nothing 'exclusive' about a substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of experience of life and thinking about life and living life. My work in music helped my business and my work in business helped my music...
...reason for Composer Ives's long obscurity is his horror of publicity. Though he has lived and worked in the midst of Manhattan's hubbub, he has never taken any part in the city's musical life. He never goes to concerts, abhors evening dress, is mortally terrified of being photographed. He never reads daily newspapers, and no journalist has ever succeeded in interviewing...