Word: waughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minimum statutory life of 25 years. The 1938 nickel will have on its heads side the profile of Thomas Jefferson, on its tails side his Monticello, Va. home. Schlag's design was chosen by Director of the Mint Nellie Tayloe Ross, Sculptors Heinz Warneke, Albert Stewart, Sidney Waugh from 390 designs which showed Jefferson standing, sitting, amused, grim, spindly, fat, and Monticello from all angles, in one case with an eagle perched on the roof...
...years. Because the buffalo-Indian head nickel will be 25 years old on February 21, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau last week announced that the Mint would coin no more after that date. A jury composed of Director of the Mint Nellie Tayloe Ross and three sculptors-Sidney Waugh, Albert Stewart and Heinz Warneke-will pick a new design from those submitted by artists. But the New Deal has already picked the subject of the winning design. It must bear a portrait of Thomas Jefferson on the obverse, of his home. Monticello, on the reverse. Struck by the coincidence that...
...thinking, should look like the sea," says Artist Waugh. "Personally, my own liking is for purely decorative design, running into the abstract. I claim painting has qualities like music, if one goes after them-a thing in itself, not in existence before it is painted into existence...
This week for the fourth successive year the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh announced that the most popular painting at the Carnegie International Exhibition was a seascape by 76-year-old Frederick Judd Waugh (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934, et seq.). Mr. Waugh's Meridian got 800 votes out of a total of 5,000 cast by visitors who had no less than 407 paintings to choose from...
Snooty critics are accustomed to laugh out loud at the work of aged Artist Waugh: 1) because it is limited almost entirely to realistic paintings of surf, and 2) because his surf pictures are "all alike." Although Artist Waugh paints the sea as it looks from not greatly dissimilar rocks near his Cape Cod home, sympathetic critics find his paintings no more nor less alike than the inexhaustible aspects of ocean water. In eschewing all human subjects for the sea, F. J. Waugh is actually akin to abstractionists like Georges Braque, winner of the Carnegie first prize this year (TIME...