Word: pyles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broadcloth Boys. Immediate granddaddies of one contemporary school were the American pre-Raphaelite Edwin Austin Abbey and the Romanticist Howard Pyle, both august figures around Manhattan's mellow Century Club in the 1890s. Pyle, later joined by his star pupil, N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth, founded an informal art school at Wilmington, Del., where young Pyles and young Wyeths still make most of the art news (TIME, Nov. 15; 1937). Abbey's Tennysonian women and Pyle's nut-brown heroes haunted subsequent illustrators in oil. So did their love of historical romance. One of their stylistic descendants...
Dean Cornwell (47), learned illustration under Pyle-Pupil Harvey Dunn and about 1916 got a free hand from the late Editor Ray Long to become Red Book's (later Cosmopolitan's) pride and joy. His illustrations for such fictioneers as Blasco Ibanez, E. M. Hull, Arthur Somers Roche and Somerset Maugham were as exotically escapist as the tales themselves, and his studio became famous for its clutter of authentic props. In 1922 tall, enthusiastic, travel-loving Artist Cornwell went to London to work with Frank Brangwyn, has since incorporated that decorator's style with...
...last week's exhibition by a retrospective room full of Gibson Girls. Now 71 and long retired, high-collared, big-chinned "Dana" Gibson paints all day in a 59th Street studio but not a soul is permitted to see his work. Held in great disdain by the Pyle school as "hothouse" draftsmen, Gibson's followers James Montgomery Flagg and Howard Chandler Christy had their years of glory but are now meeting stiff competition...
...trade has been parodied by Yaleman Peter Arno in the most devastating battles of black & white in contemporary drawing. Almost all other young illustrators are practiced hands at the slim, distracting figure - a subject which nearly monopolized this year's illustrators' exhibition, to the impoverishment of what Pyle or Gruger would have called illustration. Best young draftsmen : Al Parker, John Gannam, Harry Beckhoff of Collier's, Garrett Price, James W. Williamson...
Died. Charles C. ("Cash & Carry") Pyle, 56, famed sports promoter; of cerebral thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Promoter Pyle made a fortune managing the professional career of Footballer Harold ("Red") Grange and sponsoring the first U. S. professional tennis tours. He lost it in 1929 in his second transcontinental "bunion derby" (marathon), tried to recoup with his "Believe It or Not" concession at Chicago's Century of Progress Fair...