Word: bridgman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been doing year in & year out for the past 43 years: teaching U.S. artists how to draw the human figure. The oldster's name, as unfamiliar to the general public as it is familiar to practically every artist in the U.S., was George Brant Bridgman. Teacher Bridgman has good reason to take his teaching duties seriously. Some 70,000 artists (including Alexander Brook, John LaGatta, Eugene Speicher, McClelland Barclay, Norman Rockwell) learned their bones and muscles in his quiet, methodical classes...
Prim and meticulous, 77-year-old Bridgman stumps up & down his classroom, glowering affably at any student who wastes drawing paper or sits a few inches out of line from the other students. Occasionally he stops to drop a sardonic remark or to redraw, in heavy accurate lines, an improperly pitched shoulder or a badly proportioned leg. Something of a Puritan, Bridgman has only recently permitted nude models in mixed classes of men & women. He treats the human body as solemnly and abstractly as an engineering problem. "Anatomically," he says, "there's not much difference between...
...George Bridgman's career as the art world's big bone & muscle man began in the 1890's when he decided that the job of teaching artistic anatomy was being mishandled, even in Paris. He decided to teach himself...
Finding that there were almost no books on artistic anatomy, Bridgman began to compile his own. He wrote a whole book on the human hand, carrying around a batch of wrist and finger bones in his pocket and earnestly examining them at odd moments on subways and in restaurants. At home he kept a hand pickled in glycerin and carbolic acid, studied it for weeks until putrefaction forced him to bury it in the garden to the horror of his Negro gardener. Once a taxi driver, aware of his interest in cadavers, appeared on his doorstep with a dismembered human...
Among the other doing defense work are: Paul D. Bartlett, associate professor of Chemistry; Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural philosophy; Jocob P. Den Hartog...