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...business in 1922 to devote his entire time to his flat decorative landscapes and formal figures. As a painter he is as methodical as he was a lawyer. He works eight hours a day. During the three years they spent together in Anticoli. Italy he drove his artistic mentor, tempera mental Maurice Sterne, to the verge of exhaustion by forcing him to keep the same rigorous hours. Best known Bruce canvas. Panorama of San Francisco, hangs in the San Francisco Stock Exchange. The Luxembourg has another of his landscapes...
...bureau drawer. Because of their fluctuating value they appeal to the trading instinct latent in all collectors. But the appreciation of the graphic arts has this difference from the appreciation of painting: a man may have a sound knowledge of Renaissance painting without knowing the difference between tempera and gesso. But a print collector cannot appreciate what he has in his portfolio unless he knows a great deal about the technical processes involved. A finished print is the result of three artistic processes: composition, engraving, printing...
...Artist Marsh has followed the recent revival of interest in mural painting. Paintings shown last week were not on canvas but in tempera on panels coated with gesso. They had an obvious architectural quality. Best were "Swinging Carrousel," a tremendously forceful study of figures whirling on a Coney Island merry-go-round, and "Gaiety Burlesque," an etching of bloated faces leering at a Callipygian beauty on a runway, that was listed in the Institute of Graphic Arts' 50 prints of the year...
...Lower prices. ¶ Increased speed and power. ¶ Greater number of cylinders (there are new 16s, 12s and more eights than ever before). ¶ Feed pumps for the fuel. ¶ More quiet, less vibration. ¶ Oil flow improvement and oil tempera- ure control. ¶ Ease in gear-shifting. ¶ Fender wells for the spare tires. ¶ Pastel shades in paint...
...Orozco there were such names as Jean Chariot, Carlos Merida and Pachecho. Their water boy and official brush washer was Miguel Covarrubias, now a highly paid smartchart caricaturist. Artist Orozco meanwhile was experimenting with the medium that was to bring him his greatest success: true fresco, painting in tempera on wet plaster so that the design becomes a part of and not an application to the wall. In 1929 the political explosion that brought death to thousands of Mexican soldiers landed Artist Orozco in New York where he was adopted wholeheartedly by Miss Alma Reed, operator of the since defunct...