Word: self-taught
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...admit that they weekly net somewhere around $50 each, after rent and assistants' fees of $25. Most famed of the beach's seven oldtime artists is a barrel-chested, cow-eyed Calabrian named Dominick ("Nick") Spagnola who has sculptured next to the Steel Pier for 17 years. Self-taught, he pioneered floodlighting, cement statues, the personal sketch. Ten years ago, against his better artistic judgment, he installed easel and paper sketching pads to meet modern competition. He has sand-modeled such celebrities as Paderewski, Caruso, Valentino, Gilda Gray, Portraitist William Chase (who told him to "keep...
...Hunt together with the 16 other contemporary U. S. paintings acquired this year with the Hearn funds. Already on view were such old hands as Edward Hopper, Bernard Karfiol, Max Weber, Louis Eilshemius, Augustus Vincent Tack. For the first time appeared equally well-known George Biddle, William Glackens, vigorous, self-taught Joe Jones of Missouri, Henry Botkin, Robert Brackman, Alexander James, Sidney Laufman, Henry E. Mattson, Paul Sample, Louis Bouche. Showgoers lifted most surprised eyebrows when they beheld Doris Lee's Catastrophe, which showed a Zeppelin in flames over Manhattan, its passengers drifting earthward in parachutes (see cut). Working...
Until the invention of photography, the shrewdest observer of horses in motion was a self-taught British sporting painter named George Stubbs. For eight years he studied the anatomy of the horse, dissecting carcasses, hanging articulated skeletons from the ceiling to move the legs with ropes. His Anatomy of the Horse, published in 1766, is a landmark in veterinary medicine as well as in art. But in his pictures, many of which were in last week's show, his hunters still galloped in the traditional hobbyhorse attitude, with all four feet fully extended...
Late in the 1570's Olof Krans whose art was entirely self-taught, began painting the Jansonites. Between drinking bouts he kept at it for years, doing his friends and neighbors in return for enough money to get another bottle. Since the Bishop Hill males happened to be strong individualists who rarely shaved, the resulting gallery is not only historically but barbaryologically noteworthy...
Artist Saint's seven sons include Sam, 24, writer, licensed pilot and glassmaker; Phil, 23, a '"cartoonist-evangelist" who last year contributed a religious comic strip to The Presbyterian Guardian (TIME, Oct. 28); and David ("Scelp"), 19, who blossomed out as a self-taught sculptor at 15. Most commercial member of the family is Xathanael ("Thanny"),11, who has a Philadelphia Bulletin paper route. Their mother & sister keep house, supervise some 30 meals...