Word: painters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Edwin Rowland Blashfield, 79, famed mural painter; to Miss Grace Hall, 58, writer, of Manhattan...
...Octopus. There were two detectives, Mr. Dempsey and Mr. Kelly. They could not refuse a wisp of a girl who asked them to investigate a certain Long Island lighthouse wherein people were frequently murdered. On discovering a painter in the lighthouse, Mr. Dempsey tells Mr. Kelly to find the painter's pallet. Whereupon Mr. Kelly tells the painter to open his mouth, but it is Mr. Dempsey who announces that all painters have weasels. Then lights blink, doors swing, screams are screamed-and people appear, one by one, a shaggy seadog with a hook for a hand, a chirping...
During the ten years that followed, Painter Motley had to work hard. He waited on dining-car tables, did some light plumbing, some heavy coal-heaving and painted a lot more pictures. One of these, A Mulattress won him the Frank G. Logan medal and prize at the Chicago Art Institute Exhibition in 1925. Last week he achieved the honor of a one-man exhibition in Manhattan, an honor which, so far as is known, no Negro has ever before achieved. To the New Galleries came a motley crowd, including Ralph Pulitzer, part-owner of the N. Y. World...
...like, were good. Technically, the best were Artist Motley's studies of mulattoes, octaroons, quadroons, his Portrait of My Grandmother, and a gay and decorative panel, Parade. Ralph Pulitzer bought Octaroon. But the spectacular and atmospheric illuminations of East African voodooism were more original and hence more noticed. Painter Motley has seen the crowd of anxious dark faces at a fortune teller's door, waiting to be told what numbers to bet on in a gambling game. He paints the same crowd, their black skins grey in the light of a jungle moon, capering through the mad tendrils...
Died. Edward Burgess Butler, 74, retired millionaire owner and founder of Butler Brothers (wholesale drygoods with warehouses in Chicago, New York, St. Louis), amateur painter; in Pasadena, Calif.; of pneumonia...