Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editors and contributors- there was no chief among Editors Egmont Arens, Joseph Freeman, Hugo Gellert, Michael Gold, James Rorty and John Sloan-included some of the mainstays of the older magazines, especially artists: the powerful Gellert, convulsive William Gropper, sly Art Young with his tongue in his foxy-grandpa cheek. But for the most part they were new hands-economic malcontents and idealists recruited from the younger generation. There were names like Klein, Lozowick, Soglow and Dehn signed to some of the pictures. A young lady called Wanda Gag contributed a startling portrait of "The Tired...
...years ago these Independents had their first show. Having survived the cannonade of laughter that welcomed them, they proceeded, under the chaperonage of John Sloan, to exhibit year after year a freakish rout of paintings wilder than any parade of camels and elephants. The entire roof of the Waldorf is theirs to use; anyone who has painted anything can exhibit it there, and painters as remote from convention as sword-swallower, snake charmer, bearded ladies, send in their works-and are laughed at. And many of those who roused the stormiest guffaws ten years ago are now selling their canvases...
...studded with glass diamonds. There was a wooden "bust" of Paul Whiteman by Guillermo Bolin which clearly demonstrated the jazz-priest's resemblance to a sea-lion. E. E. Cummings, poet, hung a picture of angels wrestling in a vacuum. Such tolerant and able academicians as John Sloan (President of the Independent Society), Walter Pach and A. S. Baylinson- such earnest and successful strivers as O. Richard Reid, Negro artist, who worked his way through art school as a waiter and porter, and as Julia Kelly, who came untutored to the exhibition ten years ago and has recently...
...brought and erected in his Pittsburgh administration building a fountain. Ivory collecting was a pleasant avocation. His gathering contained 1,300 carved pieces, one of the few of its kind in the U. S. In 1919 he died, 25 years after the death of the Irish girl, Sallie Sloan Young, whom he married the year he set up in business for himself...
...year "or more" to this publication, with the condition that the founders raise an additional $10,000 a year. And what will this magazine be called? The New Masses, said the editors. And who are the editors? Michael Gold, Joseph Freeman, James Rorty, Hugo Gellert and John Sloan, said the backers. And what will they write about? This question the editors and backers answered in chorus in a flamboyant bulletin entitled: OUR THEMES...