Word: paintbrush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a friendly, disreputable air about much that goes on in Duffy's Tavern. Victor Moore, in handling everything from a glass of brandy to a paintbrush, is a virtuoso of the fumble. Ed Gardner, who rather suggests a ravaged Randolph Scott, is as agreeable to see as he is to hear. His specialty is straight verbal misfires such as "satisfied public accountant," his proud claim to sexual "maggotism" and his wistful reference to his Harvard days ("good old Eli"). But he also delivers a permanent description of a moneybag: "If he can't take it with...
...color and perfume of flowers was real again-Maine's goldenrod, Wisconsin's black-eyed Susan, New Mexico's Indian paintbrush. Suddenly there was nothing outlandish in the thud of a punted football, the rhythm of a dance band, the bright expensive look of department-store windows, and the solid, unshattered buildings. Across the land last week it was hot, and once more the U.S. people could listen with contentment to that most peaceful of all evening music-the tinkling of the lawn sprinklers, turning drowsily in the darkness...
Independent Society members worry little about practical jokers. But last week an apocryphal tale of a joke on the Independents was causing chuckles on Manhattan's art-conscious 57th Street. According to the story, two wags put a paintbrush in the hands of an intelligent child of two, tried to enter the result in the Independent show. The painting was rejected. Reason: too academic...
...despite his "Aryan" birth, Satirist Grosz wisely fled to the U.S. He became a citizen, got a Guggenheim Fellowship and a job teaching at Manhattan's Art Students League. And then vitriolic George Grosz astonished his erstwhile admirers : his scratching pen gave way to an affectionate, romantic paintbrush. In lush, vibrant color, curling brush strokes that recalled Van Gogh's, he painted sunclean, little nudes in airy land scapes, glowing dunes and beaches of health and optimism. From the painter of Germany's grim, Gothic, post-war Walpurgisnacht, George Grosz was converted...
Aldro T. Hibbard, president of Rockport's Art Association, wired the Dial Press: "I was shocked to the camel-haired bristles of my paintbrush. . . . We of Rockport colony have always looked upon Provincetown as a weak sister in the field of art and this theft of our most sacred subject is a confession that the little village is minus a house suitable to be reproduced in the book by Mrs. Vorse...