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...only I had skill, sir Just to draw as you can write, Wisconsin I would thrill, sir, With a sketch in black and white...
...House an interesting collection of oriental objects d'art, which have been lent by residents and by the Fogg Art Museum for an indefinite period. In the large common room are among other exhibits, three Japanese prints dating from the first contact with modern Europe. They include a sketch on an English lady of uncertain age, a soldier, and the portrait of a Yankee skipper. In the Tutor's common room a sculptured head, collected during the first Harvard expedition to the caves of Northern China, has been put on exhibition, together with a pair of Chinese lions, which...
...with coal and lumber. Oh dear, this is frightfully embarrassing." When Cecil Beaton was ten, the Scotch-wholesaler father presented him with a 3A folding Kodak. Cecil has used it ever since-the same one. Pictures which he skillfully took with it interested the editor of the Sketch. He gave an exhibition, received commissions at $500 apiece (post-Depression price:' $300) to do society portraits, was imported to the U. S. by Publisher Conde Nast who recently gave him an exclusive contract for written articles, reproduction rights to all photographs. Mr. Nast made Photographer Beaton a present...
...Treasure Room of Widener Library. Walter Crane, who was a well know book illustrator of the latter part of the nineteenth century, is represented by some of the original drawings and paintings for his illustrations of children's books, pages from his book, "Line and Form," and his sketch books, which he did for his own pleasure during his travels in Europe...
...Fred A. Meyer, immigrant from Berlin, proudly exhibited in Manhattan a sketch of Albert Einstein which he had made aboard the S. S. Belgenland last fortnight and to which Dr. Einstein had affixed, with his signature, the following rhyme: Dieses fette satte Schwein