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...They sold for $15 to $25 each. Gentle John Rogers was born in Salem, Mass, in 1829. He worked in a machine shop, later as a draughtsman and surveyor, but modeling in clay was his deepest interest. His family always insisted that John Rogers was a self-taught sculptor. In 1858 he had saved enough pennies for a trip to Italy - not originally to study but to rest his overstrained eyes on the long sea trip. In Rome, where he arrived with a curly brown beard like a myopic apostle, he took a few lessons from a British sculptor named...
...genius is 19-year-old Charles de Ravenne, a retired child actor and self-taught painter. Artist de Ravenne was once described by the now defunct Hollywood Highlights as "a slight youngster with the 'artiste' expressed in every characteristic. His deep, ferret-black eyes look through you in search of what it is that combines to make you appear as you do. His broad understanding smile bespeaks an appreciation of you and God and nature. His long slinky fingers were made to push a brush...
Finalist Richard H. Granelli, 25, a self-taught office boy, had won one of the Institute's $500 scholarships last year for study at Fontainebleau. He figured music buildings brought him luck. He figured further that the main problem of an opera house was to get the people in and out quickly. Concentrating on the cloak rooms and taxi driveway, he drank gallons of black coffee, slept on the floor of his cubicle, drew and erased with furious care. There is no telephone in the Bronx home where Finalist Granelli lives with his father, an Italian mosaicist. But last...
...November 1916, Henry Ward Ranger, a self-taught and highly successful landscape painter, dropped dead of heart failure in his Manhattan studio. He left an estate of about $225,000 to the National Academy of Design for the purpose of buying paintings of living U. S. artists (or those not twelve months cold) and presenting them to U. S. museums. Last week the Academy's committee handed out 13 slices of Ranger pie to eager museums all over the country, as follows...
...Author, Born in Moscow in 1899 Author Leonov comes of peasant stock living in the rural, backwoods province of Kaluga. His father was a self-taught poet, later a journalist, exiled to Archangel under the Tsar. Leonid graduated from the Third Moscow Gymnasium in 1918, was refused admission to Moscow University in 1922 after demobilization from the Red Army. He then moved to Archangel to be near his father. His first writings were in verse; his first novel, Barsuki (The Badgers) was published in 1925. Other books: Rasskazy (Tales), Golubye Pesky (Blue Sand), Vor (The Thief), Sot (Fodder). In Soviet...