Word: penciling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Print Room of Goodspeed's Bookshop, Park street, Boston, is an exhibition of portraits in pencil by Mr. Emil Pollak-Ottendorff which should be of interest to members of the University not only because the drawings are of distinct excellence in themselves, but also because one of them is a striking likeness of Professor Charles T. Copeland '82. The exhibition was opened to the public yesterday and is to continue until next Wednesday, April twentieth...
Drawing is perhaps one of the most personal of the arts. There is something peculiarly attracting in the very fact that the picture is entirely created from a blank-white sheet of paper by the skillful handling of the pencil; in the opportunity that a drawing offers to even the most uninitiated observer to study the actual lines and processes of this creation. It is in this, and in the ability shown to present the true character of his sitters through close and studious observation of the physical forms and expressions that reveal the soul, that the popular appeal...
...original yellow paper wrapper, with the pages uncut, a manuscript of "The Four Georges" in the hand of Charles Poarman, with numerous corrections and additions in Thackeray's autograph, and a presentation copy of "Henry Esmond," given to Charlotte Bronth in gratitude of her recognition of his work. Several pencil drawings by Thackeray complete the selections, which is made from the collection bequeathed to the University by Mrs. Widener from her son's library...
...lamentable if the study of English at Harvard should lead a man to denature the books of Chesterton, Huneker, Dunsany, Birmingham, and Anatole France with half-baked and supercilious criticisms. Especially so when he disfigures them by writing with a No. 2 pencil which smears...