Word: paints
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stream of forms. You list Labor's so-called achievements-take a look at the other side of the picture. For the first time in our history we have bread rationing; conditions are worse than in wartime; you can't buy a new pane of glass or paint for your porch without filling in a form; under Socialism this country is falling into a state of degeneracy from which it may never rise...
Compared with the red-pepper frenzy and propaganda punch of the best Mexicans, the 24 Canadians represented seemed as remote from the rush of civilization as the glaciers, jack-pine forests and frozen lakes they liked best to paint...
...camped near the border. He had an illustrator's eye for detail which rivaled his contemporaries, Currier & Ives. The other big man of his day was Paul Kane, who may have been the real counterpart of "Langdon Towne," the painter-hero in Kenneth Roberts' Northwest Passage. To paint wilderness Indians as they really were, he accompanied a Hudson's Bay Company "fur brigade" on a three-year trek by snowshoe and canoe, came back with sketches for a lifetime of painting...
Field Marshal Viscount Harold Alexander, Governor General of Canada and leisure-hour painter, celebrated the joys of his hobby in the British Magazine. "As exciting as . . .hunting or stalking," said he. Among the high-ranking pleasures of oil paint: the "delicious smell." Confessed the Field Marshal: "I have fought many battles, and . . . generally been able to see. . . how the battle would develop, but when I am faced with a large white canvas. . . I suffer badly from...
...best paid and most featured new girls, Smart signed on a pair of Hollywood studio draftsmen named Joseph De Mers and Fritz Willis, who work mostly as a team, passing the drawing board back and forth. Says De Mers: "I paint a while and he paints a while." Every month for the next three years they have contracted to produce, individually or together, five versions of the girl (see cut). Their fee: $1,000 a throw...