Word: whistlerisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of this century. Starting as a cigar and soap-label designer in the '90s, Alfy decided by the age of 30 that art was more important than a good living; he lit out for Paris. Soon he was painting competent, easy-to-take hybrids of Sargent and Whistler, and with them winning prizes and acclaim. With An Arrangement, a low-keyed study of a girl in shirtwaist and skirt kneeling on an oriental carpet, he pulled down the fattest plum the U.S. had to offer an artist, $1,500 and a gold medal for the best painting...
...Director Rothenstein had made his point. The selection committees had purchased no Hogarths, Reynoldses, Gainsboroughs, Constables, Turners, Blakes or Lawrences. Among later artists, there were no canvases by Whistler or Rossetti-though there were a great many by Royal Academicians. This week, except for about 30 paintings and sculptures which the Tate had always thought worth looking at, the exhibit went back into deep freeze -Psyche...
...short period last year, the whistler took up yodeling instead of his usual acts, but received what was probably the surprise of his life when Nancy Burns '50 yodeled right back at him from the other end of the line. He has not been known to yodel since...
Inhabitants of Barnard Hall have become so well acquainted with the whistler that they have affectionately dubbed him "Uncle Bob." Girls sitting at the dormitory bell desks usually hang up immediately if they know about the mysterious caller, but this has in no way affected the frequency of the calls. Some of the dorms hear from him on the average once...
Various theories of who the enigma is and why he calls have been advanced by Annex students. The majority agree that he is only one person, and the same person for the last four years. This would tend to exclude the idea that the whistler is a University undergraduate. Other girls are convinced that the bothersome caller is simply a local "crackpot...