Word: draughtsmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Chrysler draughtsmen organized a Society of Designing Engineers, C. A. C. furnished a draughtsman-agent to join the union, report on its meetings. Twenty members were shortly discharged. Remaining members, a Society official testified last week, were so terrorized that they had stopped attending meetings, were mailing their dues...
...potent an enemy of Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 as he was his friend in 1932. His Frederick Burr ("Happy Hooligan") Opper has retired; his Tom Powers and Nelson Harding have lost their touch. Hence Publisher Hearst's message of hate has been chiefly depicted by such second-string draughtsmen as King Features' James G. ("Little Jimmy") Swinnerton and the New York American's Dorman H. Smith. Both specialize in a moronic, capped-&-gowned Brain Truster. Cartoonist Swinnerton's is distinguished by jackass ears...
...point of view, most important of these was Charles Dara Gibson. To Life for $4 he sold his first contribution: A dog outside his kennel baying the moon.* Encouraged by a publisher who was also an artist, Gibson was joined in Life's early pages by such celebrated draughtsmen as E. W. Kemble (funny Negroes), Palmer ("Brownies") Cox, F. G. Attwood...
Beyond the fact that they were contemporaries, casual friends, great draughtsmen and constant battlers for the recognition of U. S. Art, Artists Davies and Bellows had little in common. Supersensitive, romantic Arthur Davies, painter of moonstruck nudes in mystic landscapes, was so shy that he spent most of his life hiding behind a bushy mustache and the tallest and tightest stiff collar haberdashers could furnish. He would stay locked in his studio painting furiously for days at a time, occasionally lunched frugally with his good friend Dealer William Macbeth. Only his burning interest in the technique of painting...
Design. Its purpose is to employ artist-draughtsmen to visit collections of U. S. antiquities, make careful drawings of furniture, chests, ironware, pottery, costumes, etc., for distribution to schools and colleges. As last year, a sizeable section was set apart for the work of children in state-supported institutions. Some of their output, particularly the sculpture, was better than that of the adults. Outstanding were a plaster head of a miner by 15-year-old Mike Mosco; a stone buffalo by 11-year-old Antony de Paolo, who was run over and killed by an automobile few weeks...