Word: painters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston Public Library they admired. They thought of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Whistler died in 1903. The library, privately endowed (only the building is public property), was too poor to pay Sargent's price, too proud to give the job to anyone but a really "distinguished painter...
Eight Etudes for Symphony Orchestra (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS) respectively dedicated by Composer Robert Russell Bennett to Composer-Conductor Walter Damrosch, Novelist-Essayist Aldous Huxley, Actor-Playwright Noel Coward, Carl Hubbell, all Dictators, Human Faith, Painter Eugene Speicher, the Ladies. They are given their first public performance by Howard Barlow's orchestra...
...Seattle last week, 50 art students of the University of Washington summer school had an experience: listening to the lectures of a small, swarthy painter, art historian, moralist, critic, ex-automobile racer named Amédée Ozenfant who was making his first U. S. visit. His shattered English made intelligible by generous gestures, abundant enthusiasm, Instructor Ozenfant impressed on them the message he has been preaching in Europe for 20 years: that great art realizes the constant elements in human experience...
...Manhattan, outspoken Painter Benton professed to regard the affair as "a big joke." This week the board finally decided to renew the contract, held: "No matter what anybody may think of Mr. Benton's book or his painting, there has been no question regarding his ability as an instructor...
...foreboding in Ende's painting, found that, in the world he presents, figures are stopped before a barrier, or seek shelter like the nudes in Under the Console (see cut). In Munich, where his lively little wife teaches physical culture, Ende has been caught like many a German painter in current confusions of German art: his painting has received the official thumbs-down that goes with inclusion in Hitler's Degenerate Art show, but he has been commissioned to do murals for Göring's air ministry...