Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Woefully lacking in class consciousness, Artist Ganso would rather paint a pair of buttocks than all the breadlines on the Bowery. For years his artistic idol and best friend was Jules Pascin. Artist Pascin specialized in painting naughty little girls in pale misty colors with a spidery delicate line...
...judges awarded four instead of the usual two Altman prizes to U. S.-born citizens. Most important of the Altman prizes ($700) went to Sidney E. Dickinson, conservative portraitist and onetime art instructor, for a curious canvas entitled The Pale Rider. Apparently having listened to much talk about surrealism, Artist Dickinson did a picture of a morose young woman in a red dress seated on a falling, pedestal by a table loaded with books. A Negro in a grey flannel shirt is pulling a heavy tarpaulin over the whole composition while three white roses fall from the sky. The Pale...
...Pale, saturnine Hilaire Hiler was born in St. Paul, educated at the University of Pennsylvania. All his life he wanted to be a painter, but virtually his only formal education in the arts was a few lessons on the saxophone. Serious critics have praised his work, night-club proprietors have admired his murals, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Mrs. John Work Garrett have bought his paintings...
...would seem then that an earth tremor sufficiently violent to cause these supporting beams to slip out of their slings would be all that is required to detach the floors and precipitate glass flowers, meteorites, and pale-ontological exhibits into the basement. In any case Geology students working in the Museum have long been advised to depart from the promises at the first rumblings...
...down has been the one about his health. One day last April an Associated Press photographer snapped the President at a baseball game yelling and popping peanuts into his mouth. Worse was a photograph he took in which a trick of light had made the President look ghastly pale. Its publication brought the White House a storm of anxious letters inquiring about the President's health. Distraught, Secretary Early declared a ban on all candid cameras around the White House...