Word: nast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the sort of thing for which it was established. In conjunction with an amusing showing of the works of provincial U. S. painters of the early 19th Century, the museum had a memorial exhibition of the work of the greatest cartoonist the country has produced: Thomas Nast...
...Behind a great table, in the capacity of New York's Chief Magistrate, sat crippled, smiling Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Before him stood a great barrel of a man with a soup-bowl haircut and cutaway, who looked like a slightly modernized political cartoon by the late Thomas Nast. He was Thomas M. ("Big Tom") Farley...
...Gary Rumsey. By the time the Museum opened last week, several non-Hibernian names often connected with Culture in New York had been added to the list of sponsors and patrons-Otto Hermann Kahn, William Ziegler, Percy Rivington Pyne Jr., Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr. and Jr., Publisher Condé Nast's daughter Natica...
Other magazines have likewise fallen from popularity because the times have passed them by. In the eighties, "Harper's Weekly" crusaded almost single-handed against the pioneer racketeers of the Tweed Ring and won its fight by the efforts of the cartoonist Thomas Nast. And in the turbulent days of the Roosevelt campaigns, its drawings by Kemble crystallized the opinion of the opposition. But because "Harper's" could not remake its pages in the image of Baron Steiehen or Covarrubias...
...prints of a group of modern photographers, now famed and successful, who more than 25 years ago self-consciously called themselves the Photosecessionists and started the magazine Camera Work under amazing, pugnacious Alfred Stieglitz. Beside Photographer Stieglitz, they were: Edward Steichen (now photogra-pher-in-chief to the Conde Nast publica-tions), Gertrude Kasebier and the late Clarence White. Also included in last week's exhibition were prints by the younger Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, Ed- ward Weston. The work of these photographers has often been shown, always been praised. Prints on view last week were admirable, priced...