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Into the ocean at Biddeford Pool, Me., plunged plucky James Montgomery Flagg, famed artist, well-paid pen-and-ink perpetrator of languid women, stout men, old home scenes. Beating through storm-twirled waves, while lightning flashed above him like a white, demented eyeball, he swam to the side of Isaac Cook, drowning realtor, pulled him shoreward. Mr. Cook, safe on shore, offered no word of thanks. His breath made no mist upon a mirror. Saved from drowning, he had died of heart disease...
Both these artists depend upon color for their ultimate emotional expression, and Fish especially handles her medium with dashingly modern and exotic, not to say erotic, effect, combining it with glittering overlays of gold and silver and with rich arabesques of pen-and-ink design which suggest alternately Leon Bakst and the late Aubrey Beardsley. Hope Weston is more seriously thoughtful and mystic, in her endeavor "to visualize Khayyám as he appeared to his contemporaries-to study his mind before FitzGerald gilded his thoughts...
...Flying Dutchman-formidable pirate figures with Pyle's characteristic contrasts of color masses and sombre realism. There are Revolutionary War scenes, one small watercolor, illustrations for Pyle's own stories, A Modern Sinbad and the Pilgrimage of Truth (the latter painted on mahogany), and pen-and-ink sketches for many stories and articles originally published in Harper's Magazine...
...announcement of her press agent. She is "collaborating" with Lauren Stout, cartoonist. "That is," continued her press agent, "Constance develops the. ideas and lines, then gives them to Mr. Stout, who, in turn, transfers them to paper." Miss Talmadge's first venture as an artist-a pen-and-ink artist-will be a series of cartoons entitled Dulcy, The Delightful Dumbbell. They are syndicated by the Key-City Feature Service and will appear in the Evansville (Ind.) Courier, the Rockwell (Okla.) Tribune, the Boston Post, the Scranton Telegram, the Sacramento Tribune, the Muskogee (Okla.) Phoenix, the Morning Sentinel (Orlando...
Elizabethan Songs "In Honor of Love and Beautie." Collected and illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett. With introduction by Andrew Lang. Printed on Handmade paper, with four headpieces in photogravure, twenty-one full-page photogravure plates, etched title, and fifty headings and tailpieces from pen-and-ink drawings. 8vo. Cloth, extra gilt...