Word: steuart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little courtroom was packed when Colonel William J. Donovan got slowly to his feet last week. Most important person present, not including the defendants and attorneys, was University of Wisconsin's illustrious Artist-in-Residence John Steuart Curry, his pencil out and ready to catch "Wild Bill" Donovan in action. Colonel Donovan cried: "Gentlemen, we may now see another depression, a new call for men to sit down with their President...
...starred venture in progressive education was University of Wisconsin's Experimental College, which flared and flickered between 1927 and 1932 under famed Educator Alexander Meiklejohn. A more modest effort in the same line was the importation a year ago of John Steuart Curry to be resident artist at the University. Nominally under the jurisdiction of the College of Agriculture, Artist Curry was given a five-year contract at $4,000 a year, a studio and the right to the title "Professor Curry," which he promptly painted on his garbage...
...Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria were 300 socialite members of an organization known as The Limited Editions Club, which, for annual dues of $120, has since 1929 been sending them twelve Fine Books a year. Also on hand were four well-known U. S. artists, cherubic John Steuart Curry, swarthy Thomas Benton, freckle-fisted Reginald Marsh and bright-nosed Henry Varnum Poor. To them the Limited Editions Club's suave Director George Macy awarded four $2,000 "fellowships" to support them while each illustrated a suitable U. S. classic, as yet unnamed...
...which will contain no less than 500 figures. An obviously gifted draughtsman, McCrady gets his luminous effects by "under-painting," working in transparent color glazes on a warm, umber ground. Tender, fully imagined, though not profound, his Negro paintings appear as authentically melodious as the Kansas paintings of John Steuart Curry are authentically robust...
...regularly." During the War he got a job painting camouflage in the shipyards at Newport News, Va. For the last ten years he has lived quietly at Weston, Conn., seen his son Charles through the Yale School of Fine Arts. Both he and Kansas' eminent John Steuart Curry, who worked with him on some murals for the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial in 1926, can remember with amusement that Daugherty told Curry he ought to learn how to draw...