Word: penciling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kunsidirektors Brown and Langworthy have already received contributions from a number of budding Surrealists. The works so far have been done in pencil, black and white, watercolors, and things. No oil paintings have been handed...
PORTRAITS AND SELF-PORTRAITS - Georges Schreiber - Houghton Mifflin ($2.75). Collection of 40 pencil portraits of celebrities, mostly authors, who contribute as captions bits of autobiography, philosophy, recommended reading from their own works...
...brief mutiny (TIME, Sept. 21 ) before the Lows sailed on to South America, stopped at Buenos Aires while persons unknown threw a bomb at the British Embassy without much effect. Because the bearded Low is definitely pink in his politics, Britons expected him to be kind with his pencil to President Roosevelt in Washington. Last week, with Low just back in London and working again for Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, cartoon fanciers snapped up Low Among the Americans, a written and sketched report of the Lows' holiday, featuring "Mr. President...
...rest of his life when critics continued to call him an Impressionist. Painting outdoors gave him a cold in the head. He could not understand the experiments with broken light of Monet and Pissarro. All Degas' famed sporting pictures were painted in his studio from rapid pencil sketches. Though one of the greatest of figure painters, he despised women. "Little rats" was his favorite term for the ballet dancers who posed for his great pastel studies, and he seemed to take a malicious delight in twisting them into uncomfortable postures...
...Beiermeister, 53, long ill, retired physician of Needham, Mass. Certainly the imminence of death did not terrify him when an excruciating attack of angina pectoris gripped his heart last week. Alone in the house he shared with a sister, he locked all doors, filled a hot water bottle, took pencil & paper, stretched out on the kitchen floor...