Word: mask
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bridges books: Poetical Works; Demetcr, a Mask; Humdrum and Harum-Scarum, A Lecture on Free Verse...
...spite of all geographical difficulties the skill of the artist seems to have given his work an all around excellence which biased the judges even then in his favor. Nor was his versatility confined to the purely physical sides of the questioned. This picture, which started as a death mask to Beethoven, includes among other attractive features, a young lady standing on her head along with some very fine draperies. And now the wrong has been righted, and the artist has the prize money. The only criticism is that some might feel that the judges of this exhibition were...
Last week in Manhattan the first one-man show of Modigliani was held. Among the 37 canvases, mostly portraits of his Paris friends, was one of his earliest heads and his last canvas, a large nude. Also shown was his last palette and a death mask taken in the hospital by his friends, the painter Kisling and the sculptor Lipshitz. It reveals a small ascetic face with sunken eyes, a very thin nose...
...late, peace-loving Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister of the Reich who died last month (TIME, Oct. 14), was given a whole page to himself in the Illustrated London News, including pictures of his death mask, a photograph of his neatly dressed corpse in its coffin (the dead hands holding flowers) and a tribute saying that his death "was a great blow not only to Germany but to Europe as a whole...
...keep him from action for any length of time. Trainer later described the Penn captain as the hardest running back he had ever opposed, certainly a tribute to the man whom many rated as the outstanding player of the 1928 football season. After that accident Trainer had a special mask constructed by which he could easily be recognized from the stands. His stalwart work in the succeeding games and particularly the Yale fracas therefore stood out like a beacon light and made the spectators realize what a consistently fine job he was doing in messing up enemy line attacks...