Word: prim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conventional life of a Philadelphia society girl to a career of painting on the Paris boulevards of the 1870s has always been shrouded in a cloud of Victorian propriety. Against the wishes of her banker father, who roared that he would almost rather see her dead than a painter, prim, self-willed Philadelphian Cassatt sailed off to Europe alone at the age of 23, remained there, except for a trip or two, until her death in 1926. Impatient with the conservative French academies where other U.S. students complacently copied the traditions of classicists like David and Ingres, she settled down...
...well as that." Inviting her to join the ranks of the Impressionists who were just then making history by dragging art from its musty museums and studios into the sunlight, Painter Degas gave her some pointers on drawing. The platonic friendship between dapper, ironic Boulevardier Degas and his prim Pennsylvania ward ripened and endured until Degas' death in 1917, became the closest relationship Mary Cassatt ever had with a member of the opposite...
...mere $3,700, Sculptor Ziolkowski was hurt, but agreed to carry on. Saying that the money would not provide him a shed to work in, Ziolkowski borrowed a trailer and carted a 32-ton block of Tennessee marble onto the lawn in front of West Hartford's prim Town Hall. There, stripped to the waist, Sculptor Ziolkowski hacked and chiseled. He turned night into day with glaring floodlights, rang West Hartford's rural welkin with an electric drill. When the West Hartford clergy protested his working on the Sabbath, bushy-headed Ziolkowski snorted: "There seems...
...market where bearded Amish and Mennonite farmers sell their produce, offered as much good hunting as a well-stocked game preserve. Its gaily painted kitchen cabinets, dower chests, desks and tables, Bethlehem painted glass, grotesque Germanic Toby jugs and brightly colored tinware are far more colorful than the prim, functional antiques of New England. Their artistic flavor was well represented by Norristown's reconstructed old-fashioned Pennsylvania Dutch country store, in which heavily skirted, buxom saleswomen sold such newly popular items as hair ribbons, school slates, stick candy, kerosene lamps, penny banks, flannel underwear...
Most of them were portraits of people with strong, lined faces, gnarled hands, who dressed in prim, sober costumes. Some depicted demure-looking children. All of them were taken nearly a hundred years ago. The photographer who had made them had died in his native Scotland in 1870 without ever having seen a modern film or darkroom. But he had caught the dour, moody characters of his sitters with a Rembrandt-like vividness that no present-day camera artist has ever surpassed. His name: David Octavius Hill...