Word: studio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this is ''artistic license"-which is not the license to keep a studio-harem, but the right of any artist to use his tools and materials in any way he pleases to achieve the effect he wants. . . . JOHN WILLIAM SHAW...
...keeps as pets in her New York studio two alligators and eight turtles...
...accomplished sister Katharine, who still "lives in Wilmington. Best known Pyle pupils were Maxfield Parrish, the late Jessie Willcox Smith and N. C. Wyeth. Nearest to the master in spirit, big. burly Painter Wyeth lives at Chadds Ford in a rambling brick house with a barn-size studio, supposedly on the site of one of Anthony Wayne's old gun emplacements beside Brandywine Stream...
...reminiscence written ten years after Pyle's death he described Pyle's summer art classes "working in the spacious and grain-scented rooms'' of the mill studio. "To recall the unceasing soft rush of water as it flowed over the huge, silent wheel beneath us thrills me through." This capacity for simple, lush feeling is one of the qualities which have enabled Wyeth to score even more imaginative knockouts on Christmas book readers than his teacher. In 30 years he has done illustrations for 24 juvenile classics for Scribner's alone, some 500 color paintings...
...Plum teaches him jujitsu and the rhumba, becomes his secretary. He refuses to send to Switzerland for edelweiss. He causes Miss Cheri to break her contract under the moral turpitude clause by getting her so drunk she slips under a table in the Biltmore. When the bank sells the studio over his head and fires him, he organizes studio employes to defy the new owner, throws Nassau out with a jujitsu hold, saves Cheri's last picture by having it recut to star a gorilla. Stand-in is the most human as well as the most biting comedy...