Word: painting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widow died, in the plain Philadelphia house to which she had gone as a bride in 1884. Fortnight ago the Eakins pictures she had left went on display in adjacent galleries. The first day's sale alone came to more than the $15,000 Eakins made from painting in his 72 years. Eakins' portraits were too explicit to please his indignant sitters, while his interest in the human figure led him, to paint nudes too explicit for his time. When he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts "the female models wore masks, thus hiding their...
...years, Albert Ryder completed less than 200 pictures. A recluse who painted from imagination, he lived in a messy Manhattan studio. Working on several pictures at a time, he gave them lustre, depth and mystery through alternate layers of paint and glaze. After laboring 18 years on Macbeth and the Witches, one of the romantically sombre canvases in his present Manhattan show at Knoedler's, he remarked: "I think the sky is getting interesting." Critics agree that Ryder's skies are the most interesting in U. S. painting...
Dahlov Zorach Ipcar, 22, now lives with her husband, Adolph, on William Zorach's farm at Robinhood, Me. She plows, pitches hay and looks after the horses, does not milk or drive a car. She still finds time to paint farm and hunting scenes, recently did a mural through the SFA (see below) for the post office at La Follette, Tenn. Last month she bore her first child, a son. Dahlov got her own name from a song the Zorachs used to sing to her about "Mama, Daddy love 'um." Her older brother Tessim's name came...
...Montana Power Co. (assets: $152,093,000), formerly of Newark. What their arrival would do to the dwindling property tax rate (now 81?; town 8?) Flemingtonians could only guess. Maybe the town tax would melt away altogether. Busily turning their new-found tax savings into fresh coats of paint; landscaping, new roofs, etc., the town was rewarded for not being tax greedy. For Flemington's tax rate was 31? below any other New Jersey municipality-and still going down...
...saintly old figure is rudely expressed in Albert Parry's biography of her husband, the great but forgotten Major George Washington Whistler. Biographer Parry has a lively if somewhat insistent irreverence for the Motherhood which the Major's wife exuded throughout life and continues to symbolize in paint. As he reads the evidence, she snagged him after the death of his first, beautiful wife, Mary Swift, and did her best to take all the joy out of his and their children's life from then on. But Parry's story is mostly about the Major...