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...sculptor. If he wins the prize, an artist goes to Rome and lives there at the rate of $1,600 a year for three years; his models, tuition and transportation are paid for. Last week, this year's winners were announced; one was Donald M. Mattison, student at the up-and-coming Yale School of Fine Arts, who won the prize for painting. The other was Sculptor David K. Rubins who works in the Manhattan studio of Sculptor James Earle Fraser...
...Painter Mattison appeared to be an academician before his time. His was an old-fashioned mythology picture, called Ignis Fatuus. In the painting, there were the nymphs who, according to fable, lured reckless sensation-seekers across the bogs outside of Rome eager to discover the secret of the strange fires that burned upon them. Artist Mattison had included in his composition a man chasing the three false fiery girls. He was clutching at them but his hands were empty, the nymphs were laughing and the man was about to sink down in the bog. The background of the picture...
Gazers-on were quite naturally surprised that so staid and lugubrious a representation should be the work of a 23-year-old native of Winston-Salem, N. C. With slow words, Donald Mattison explained about his picture. It was not intended as a sermon but only as "a remark upon life in New York...
...concern that the Federal District Attorney at Manhattan, Charles R. Tuttle, considers a combination in restraint of trade and which he wants broken up. His reasons: Three companies-Canadian Johns-Manville Co. Ltd., Quebec Asbestos Corp. Ltd. (a subsidiary of Philip Carey Mfg. Co. of Ohio) and the Keasby Mattison-control 80% of the world's supply of that fibrous-like rock called asbestos; those companies agreed to sell all their output for five years to one of Mr. Dillon's smart young men, duVal R. Goldthwaite; he made purchasing contracts with Johns-Manville Co. Ltd., and Philip...
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