Word: lithographs
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...that same Friday eve-at a rather liquid point in the proceedings-we were seeking a domicile, the number of which was rather obscure. Inquiry was made, at a house in the neighborhood, of a Southern gentleman, who looked so at home beneath the lithograph of the Charge of The First Maryland Regiment At The Death Of Ashby, that he obviously lived in this confederate fort. "What number is this house," we asked. "Man," his polite rejoinder echoed, "I reckon I don't rightly know...
...that Stage Beauties with Angels (see cut) grew out of a burlesque-show memory. Hirshfield was always having model trouble. For his Lion painting he tried the zoo, pictures at the public library, stuffed specimens at the American Museum of Natural History. He wound up with a cheap, toyshop lithograph, painted a lion with a tailored mane and a bland, human face that could do for a self-portrait of Hirshfield...
Some of the lithographs-printed in series from the same stone-showed Picasso's method of starting realistically, then distilling and distorting his subjects into something horrendous (or sometimes absurdly simple). The first print of Picasso's Bull, at the Museum, looked solid and sensible enough to illustrate a children's picture book. The sixth stage of the same lithograph was an airy arrangement of less than a dozen thin lines which looked as innocent as a Cro-Magnon cave painting -but less knowing. Another series of nine lithographs, entitled Two Figures, began as a rather sweet...
Corner-of-the-mouth sociology, good acting, and modern art (primitives that will make art lovers of the calendar lithograph class gasp) give "Scarlet Street" a sophisticated ugliness that is appealing, if only because of its brass...
...victorious animals tossed all bits, nose rings, dog chains and castrating knives down the well. Then they tiptoed into the farmhouse, gazed with awe at the luxury of feather mattresses, the Brussels carpet and a lithograph of Queen Victoria. The animals voted unanimously that the farmhouse should be preserved as a museum. Some hams, found hanging in the kitchen, were reverently buried...