Word: workman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next year Maurice Grosser, a "natural," had been given an exhibition at Harvard and had even sold some watercolors. He graduated with honors in mathematics, which he has never used since except for reading himself to sleep. First as a workman in the stained glass factory of famed Charles J. Connick; then on a Harvard fellowship in Italy, where he lived with a peasant family in Anticoli and the goat's milk stuck to his teeth; then employed by Muralists Victor White and Barry Faulkner to put vague decorations on expensive Manhattan walls, Maurice Grosser adjusted himself...
...Sydney, Australia, a court decided that Charles Sutton, a workman, should be awarded compensation because a fish...
...music and musicians nurtured in the romantic era. This change of attitude consists of a shift of emphasis from the idea of an artist as a man removed from the ordinary course of life by his inspiration and genius to the conception of an artist as an excellent workman--one who intends his product for use in every-day life. It is an ideal very close to that of Bach who wrote his cantata and his chorale prelude for the next Sunday because that was his job, and, as a good workman, he did his job as best he could...
Manhattanites who wished to supplement Knoedler's nudes with something contemporary and three-dimensional could see distinction in both respects at the Buchholz Gallery. The exhibition was of bronzes by Charles Despiau, 65, a quiet, interminable workman who has gradually taken rank as one of the two or three finest French sculptors. His Assia (see cut), a 35-inch bronze done in 1938, was the chief work shown. Not ten classic "standing nudes" so esthetically satisfactory have been fashioned since the time of Rodin...
...holders of tickets on Workman in the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes drawing, it was a marvelous race indeed. All but the four who had sold half interests to soft-soaping, sixtyish Sidney Freeman (representing Douglas Stuart, Ltd., last week in Manhattan) stood to collect $141,000 each...