Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Austrian-born Chaim Gross came to Ostrowsky as a youngster two days out of Ellis Island, fed himself on the fruit the students were to draw as still life, and later developed into a world-famous sculptor. Such artists as William Auer-bach-Levy, Jo Davidson and Jacob Epstein paid 3? a week for instruction, used pushcart peddlers for models, or bearded patriarchs who posed for 15? an hour...
...Preston School of Industry (a reform school), where "I learned everything dirty there is to know about life." At Preston, he also learned about heroin. At the age of 16, soon after getting out of Preston, he took his first "pop" of heroin as casually as another youngster might take a bottle of soda. He did it because the bigger boys wouldn't take him to the beach with them unless...
...brain. They were protozoa, to be sure, but what kind? Not until two years later (1939), when the two doctors had a similar ease and were able to transmit the baby's disease to laboratory mice, could they be sure what it was: toxoplasmosis. The luckless youngster on Eighth Avenue, her illness posthumously diagnosed, was the first case in U.S. medical history...
...sight for six years studying the old masters' techniques, at last is ready to show off the results. His 26 formal portraits seem as relaxed and unposed as snapshots; his subjects are caught speaking, smiling, playing. Two of the smoothest: a winning study of a redheaded youngster totally absorbed in playing with watercolors, a musician's wife leaning attentively forward as if listening to chamber music...
When Artist George Grosz was a youngster just learning to draw, in Germany 45 years ago, his painter mother gave him a piece of advice. Pointing to a picture of a well-fed monk holding a glass of wine aloft, she said: "George, when you can paint a glass of wine so that it looks as if you could pick it right out of the picture, then you'll be a real painter." Artist Grosz never forgot his mother's words, but it was a long time before he cared to follow them...