Word: bridgman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commenting on the economic and social implications of the bomb, Percy W. Bridgman, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, pointed out that "the responsibility for this weapon falls upon the shoulders of the government and people who called for its creation, not upon the scientist...
Died. George Brant Bridgman, 79, U.S. art's top-ranking teacher of anatomy, for 44 years a lecturer at Manhattan's Art Students League; after long illness; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Small, bald, Canadian-born Bridgman studied under Gerome and Boulanger in Paris, developed in his famed Constructive Anatomy (100,000 copies since 1920) the analogy between the human figure and geometrical forms. He proposed to teach students how to draw the human figure accurately, let them develop their own esthetic approach to the subject. He had 80,000 students, including Cartoonists Percy Crosby and Otto Soglow, Illustrators...
Evergreen. In his early teens, 49-year-old Norman Rockwell, son of a New York agent for a Philadelphia cotton-goods firm, studied for a year and a half under Anatomist George Bridgman and the late Thomas Fogarty at Manhattan's Art Students' League. He worked a few months more at the National Academy of Design. That is all the formal art training he ever had-all, for his special abilities and purposes, that he ever needed. At 17 he was doing illustrations for St. Nicholas, Boys' Life, Youth's Companion. In 1916, just...
...Bridgman spent 20 years writing his monumental Constructive Anatomy, which has sold 30,000 copies...
Every school day since 1899 Teacher Bridgman has marched with corpulent dignity through the gloomy doors of the Art Students League on 57th Street. Says he: "I have weathered the stormy days at the League when Emma Goldman, as well as other communists, lectured at the institution, shouting 'down with the Louvre, throw it into the Seine, and the Royal Academy into the Thames. Tear down the Metropolitan Museum stone by stone and burn the works of the brush-swinging hacks that go by the name of Old Masters.' " When, in 1936, the League's models staged...