Word: previewers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...posterity should know me. . . . But I am glad to think that a portrait of myself is not to appear in the exhibition of the Royal Academy." Last week black-hatted, black-witted Wyndham Lewis (The Apes of God) turned up as a critic at the Academy's socialite preview and enjoyed himself among the stiff Coronation portraits. Artist John's resignation, said he, had dealt the Academy a mortal blow, "if it is possible to use the expression 'mortal blow' with reference to a corpse...
...England Relay Carnival comes up for its second performance Saturday when the Stadium is host to track and field athletes from New England colleges. As a unit and as individuals Crimson trackmen will present a preview of Harvard track this spring...
...building, the status of Collingswood Church was that of a congregation which had defied its parent body but belonged to no other organized group. And t070-odd congregations throughout the U. S. which had left the big Presbyterian Church to join the rebels, the Collingswood suit was a preview of what might happen to them. Collingswood lost, simply because Vice Chancellor Davis read what law said on the matter, and declared that Presbyterian doctrinal disputes had nothing to do with...
Last week 30 spectators flattened their noses curiously, against a bullet-proof glass wall in California's San Quentin prison to watch a preview of a lethal chamber which its makers, Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, thought would end all such doubt. Resting on a chair inside was a cage in which waited a small, reddish-brown pig. When a lever was pulled, dropping 16 cyanide eggs into pans of sulfuric acid, thin blue fumes began to rise toward the cage. The pig jumped, squealed, flapped its ears, rolled over. Like Allen Foster, the San Quentin pig died...
...popular belief, in most cases it is not the dealer but the artist who pays for the gallery show by which public and critical attention is attracted to his work. Usual cost: anywhere from $150 for a modest show to $500 for a big one with a cocktail party preview. About the lowest price on a first-rate U. S. painting last year was $100. The highest price of the year was asked by Peter Blume for his three-year job The Eternal City: $15,000. Average price of an average painting...