Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mary Hoover studied painting with lusty George Luks and Provincetown's Charles W. Hawthorne. She won several scholarships, continued her work at Fontainebleau and at Munich, suddenly developed a great interest in modern young Spanish painters. The murals and zinc plate etchings of Luis Quintanilla in particular fascinated her. She pulled wires to see if she might study under him or be his assistant...
...news broke last week when Mrs. Wynne Byard Taylor gave her first one-man show at the Georgette Passedoit Gallery. Critics who had never heard of her before were charmed by a number of figures in mahogany, walnut, bronze, pottery, modeled with sure fingers and considerable masculine purpose. In particular they inspected approvingly a leering bronze faun with the shoulders and back muscles of Sculptor Taylor's brother...
...stage show opens with a unique attraction. Before the very eyes of the audience beautiful paintings are completed in colored sand. They start out looking like nothing in particular and end up beautiful landscapes with all the brilliant color of Maxfield Parrish paintings. Gil Lamb and Schlepperman, of Jack Benny's radio programs, are both good for laughs throughout the rest of the show...
These lectures have obviously been the result of much careful study and of particular efforts by the entire staff of the department. Attendance at them, although moderate, has not been proportional to the work involved in their preparation. Concentrators in Government should remember that one of the chief purposes of the series is to supplement tutorial work in preparation for the general examinations. Particularly significant is the announcement of the department that, although attendance at these lectures will not be necessary in order to answer any question satisfactorily, the Divisionals will be framed to allow an opportunity...
...evident that this Harrington exhibition of sculpture was rather momentous in the artistic world. Visitors wandered about regarding the pieces with that half-lethargic curiosity usually accorded the great; and several, ruminatively twisting their printed guides into cones or corkscrews, paid particular homage to a work consisting of a girl, finely poised on her toss and with slender arms flung high...