Word: salmagundi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bald, cantankerous Rudolph E. Leppert is not only art editor of The Literary Digest but a draughtsman in his own right. Weeks ago he sent a pen & ink drawing of President Roosevelt to the exhibition of Manhattan's Salmagundi Club, an organization of elderly esthetes. Last week the Salmagundi hanging committee accepted the Leppert drawing, stuck it up behind a door. Rudolph E. Leppert also happens to be a rampant admirer of the New Deal. As he saw it, the Salmagundi Club was guilty of a "slur at the President...
...messenger promptly arrived at the clubhouse with Member Leppert's resignation in one hand and a demand for the return of the President's picture in the other. Explained Salmagundi Secretary Frank Bates...
Died. Maurice Fromkes, 59, Polish-born U. S. artist noted for his paintings of Spaniards; in Paris. In 1908 he won the Salmagundi Club portrait prize. His technique was "hard, dry, brilliant, with an enamel-like brilliance." His portrait of the late Cardinal Merry del Val hangs in the Vatican...