Word: lithographs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...requests to photograph it. Once 20 years ago, when this prohibition was briefly lifted, the selectmen who allowed new color plates to be made were defeated at the next election. It was therefore news indeed last week when the selectmen of Marblehead met and voted to allow Forbes Lithograph Co. of Everett, Mass, to make four-color process plates for a Lynn lamp company's advertising campaign...
...paintings of river boatmen, fishermen, frontier riflemen, fur traders, election day crowds, etc., etc. They were so highly admired by his contemporaries that many of them were engraved and published as prints by the famed Paris house of Goupil et Cie. Goupil et Cie were working on a lithograph of Bingham's most important canvas, The Verdict of the People, during the Siege of Paris in 1871 when a Prussian shell wrecked the entire establishment. The original painting and one of tire two known proofs of that lithograph were both in the Modern Museum's show last week...
Three years ago Consolidated fell into the toils of the mightiest investment trust in the U. S., Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp. Consolidated's corporate troubles had begun with a post-War expansion during which it acquired a string of lithograph companies and a $3,000,000 debt. Atlas Corp., through a subsidiary, acquired some five-year notes covering the fattest slice of this debt ($1,600,000), together with 40,000 shares of Consolidated stock. Into the maw of Atlas Corp. many companies go but few return. Consolidated was the exception. Smooth, hustling President Jacob...
President Voice owned 25%, of Consolidated's stock when its financial troubles began. Today he owns 65%, A bristly-haired man of 50, he arrived in New York from Rumania at the age of four. At 14 he went to work with William Steiner & Co., lithographers, as a bronze feeder at $2.50 per week. Evenings he helped his father who had the candy concession at the Academy of Music on 14th St. One day the boy was picked up by the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. He spent the night in the Society home...
...Corotesque landscapes. An inheritor of the Hudson River School of painters, Swedenborgian Inness received little praise until after his death when critics hailed him a "master of U. S. landscapists." It was otherwise with Winslow Homer (1836-1910) who was acclaimed when he was 19 for a series of lithograph portraits of the Massachusetts Senate. His water colors fill an entire room of the Chicago show. There was many a Homer rendering of the thunderous waters of the Maine coast as well as a group of brilliant, placid Bahaman seascapes, faintly reminiscent of one of his most famed works...