Word: studio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another jury, the one that judges the competition in painting and sculpture for the Grand Prix de Rome (fellowships amounting to $2,000 a year and including tuition and a studio at the American Academy in Rome), gave their awards to Deane Keller, a student at the Yale School of Fine Arts, for an allegorical painting, "The Genius of Medicine," and to Joseph Kisselewski of Browerville, Minn., for a memorial sculpture...
...drinking in the U.S. To the ship reporter who met him, he amiably talked about painting, discussed the work of Alfred E. Orr, young U.S. painter, whom he financed. "Orr looks like a greater man than Rembrandt," Sir Charles remarked; said that he had rented for the painter the studio of the late John Singer Sargent, No. 31 Tite Street, Chelsea; told how Mr. Orr derived the inspiration for his greatest masterpiece, a painting of "the typical British war mother grieving for her lost sons...
...order that the Freshman Red Book may go to press is scheduled, all pictures must be in before Wednesday night. Any one who has not yet had a picture taken can still appear at Notman's Studio between 10 and 12 or between 2 and 3 o'clock today or tomorrow
...What the temperamental actress is quite likely to think her due and privilege often fills the level-headed business woman with horror. I am speaking now of such things as the early hour of arrival at the studio in the morning, working evenings and holidays, to say nothing of having to appear before the camera in a darkened, shut in studio when all the sunshine of California bids me come out and play. Then, too, the extravagance of the actress, when it comes to scenery and costumes, often shocks the business woman...
...came down groggy with soot and exertion. Penniless at 21, he married an American girl (Blanche Hawley), came to the U. S., painted scenery in the Astor Theatre. In 1906-07, three Manhattan publishers turned down The Broad Highway, most of which was written in a dismal, rat-run studio on Tenth Ave. He nearly burned it. Over 600,000 copies have been sold since an English firm took it in 1908. Beltane the Smith, The Amateur Gentleman and a dozen others are known wherever stories are read. Chunky, genial, teeming with tales, Jeffery Farnol is the modern Dumas-Dickens...