Word: caricaturists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...house was hung with murky landscapes of the Hudson River School in massive, gilded frames. Small Phillips decided he disliked pictures. After college he traveled widely in search, he says, of something to interest him. Paintings did it. His first enthusiasm was Honore Daumier (1808-79) French caricaturist and painter; afterward there were others: the French Impressionists, French and American moderns. But his first interest never waned; today Mr. Phillips has the best Daumier collection in the world. In 1918 he had enough pictures to open the Phillips Memorial Gallery in his home on 21st Street, Washington. Since then...
Each week Liberty magazine publishes a series of drawings entitled "News of the World" by Caricaturist Ralph Barton who also illustrates his own drama criticism for Life. Among Caricaturist Barton's offerings last week was (see cut) a "NEW ANIMAL for the great new merger combining the five great American circuses...
Jose Clemente Orozco started as a caricaturist. Early he gained a reputation for diabolical satire and was called the 'Mexican Goya. In the Mexican National Academy he studied painting and drew rude portraits of his masters. They told him he could not draw and sent him away. After this he worked as a newspaper artist, followed a regiment in the Carranza-Villa revolution. As a syndicate worker, he covered patio walls, stairways and crypts with enormous frescoes of a beardless Christ bearing a great cross, Saint Francis of Assisi bowing to kiss a leper, caricatures of bourgeoise ladies and their...
Artist Decker had been commissioned to do a Cruze portrait. Long a caricaturist, he tried to impart significant character rather than flattering graces to the canvas. Sensing something prisoned about Director Cruze-perhaps the restriction of raw, vital Cruze talents by the commercial requirements of cinemaland-he painted Director Cruze behind bars. Said Mr. Cruze: "I was the most surprised man in the world when I saw it. Mouth like a gargoyle, face like a frog, it made me look like an Apache or something worse. I told Decker I wouldn't accept it. I told him I wanted...
Peter Arno, caricaturist (covers for the New Yorker), has a small daughter, Patricia. Last week she was vaccinated on the sole of her foot. Reason given by her mother, Lois Long ("Lipstick") Arno: ''Even if she becomes a second Lady Godiva, no one will think of finding a vaccination scar there...