Word: varnished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Wadlow, 19, of Alton, Ill. agreed to promote Valspar varnish, by pouring, in advertisements, a teakettle of boiling water from his height of 8 ft. 7 in. upon a shining Valsparred table...
...painting: Nornie, his black-saddled wirehaired fox terrier, which he likes to put in figure compositions. Represented in a dozen good collections, Artist Malherbe has a technical peculiarity. He paints everything on panels of soft wood, to ab sorb the excess oil in his pigments, and refuses to varnish any picture until ten years after he has painted it. He believes colors take that long...
Among the problems illustrated are the restoration of damaged and repainted pictures, the cleaning off of layers of opaque varnish, and the study by means of the prints of the X-ray shadowgraph of not only the condition of a painting but also of the technique of old masters...
...Protestant is Dr. High. Its Jew is Mrs. Estelle Sternberger, dynamic director of World Peaceways. Its Catholic is that voluble Louisville, Ky. varnish maker, Col. Patrick Henry Callahan. As their first joint achievement last week, Good Neighbors High, Sternberger and Callahan produced an eminent anticlimax by announcing that the Good Neighbor League is for President Roosevelt...
...Loftin Johnson, it was not only the Academy's most pretentious art possession but also the largest single panel painted in the ancient egg tempera technique ever attempted in the U. S. Thirty-five dozen fresh eggs were mixed with oil to make a tough clinging varnish for the work. Depicted amid a blaze of banners and military pomp were the great battles of the past and their leaders...