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...Kirby, who had studied under Whistler in Paris, regarded himself as a failure as an artist when Friend Franklin P. Adams ("F.P.A.") got him a cartooning job on the old New York Evening Mail in 1911. His pen editorials soon proved too sharp-pointed for the ultra-conservative Mail and his liberal ideas quickly got him fired from the conservative New York Sun. When he joined Pulitzer's crusading New York World in 1913, Kirby found a world...
...Temple Medal (no cash) for the best oil, awarded in the past to such masters as Whistler, Winslow Homer and George Bellows, went to Louis Guglielmi of Manhattan for his New York 21, an expert semi-abstraction. Lithuanian-born Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz admitted that he was bucked up when his Prometheus Strangling the Vulture, a powerful, aggressively ugly study in plaster, won the top sculpture award. A few days after he sent Prometheus off to Philadelphia for the academy show, fire destroyed his Manhattan studio, along with ten years of work in models, sketches and drawings. "Part of my life...
...When Whistler sent his famous Artist's Mother to the 1883 Paris Salon, his bright-eyed errand boy was 23-year-old Walter Sickert. Sickert made the trip count, took a long, penetrating look at the experiments of such French artists as Degas and Manet. Back home in London, he slowly and surely began painting himself out of his place as Whistler's prize pupil into a spot as one of Britain's first & foremost impressionists. Forty of Errand Boy Sickert's paintings on view in London last week showed how good...
...Rake's Progress," with choreography by Ninette de Valois, is more interesting because it is at least a successful attempt to evoke atmosphere and, more important emotion. Rex Whistler's scenery and costumes are based on Hogarth's famous series of etchings, and the entire ballet is conceived in this spirit. In six scenes we follow the downfall of the young Bake, splendidly danced by Alexander Grant. Especially incisive and brilliant were Brian Shaw, as the Rake's Dancing Master, and Ray Powell, as "The Gentleman with a Rope," an inmate of a London madhouse...
...Where Babbitt Senior would have used a lithograph of Whistler's Mother to cover up that hole in the wallpaper, Babbitt Junior would, of course, use a Picasso." Where the older Babbitt hashed over baseball and real-estate prices at his Booster Club luncheons, the new Babbitt talks knowingly (" 'knowing' is the word") about The New Yorker, sex and existentialism in an "adequate little French restaurant in the East Fifties." Where the old Babbitt merely hated art, the new Babbitt "hugs it to death...