Word: painting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knoedler Galleries was a loan exhibition of his portraits and drawings. The Arthur Harlow Galleries showed the first complete exhibition of his etchings. With his projected English commissions canceled or postponed "for the duration," Artist Brockhurst, whose deafness kept him out of World War I, planned to paint portraits in the U. S. for at least the first part of World...
...years ago many U. S. leftwing painters turned away from canvas as being too bourgeois, began to slap murals on every bare space they could find. Five years ago, with WPA's advent, most of them got commissions to paint the walls of post offices, law courts, schools, Army posts, hospitals, customs houses. Occasionally an aroused and enraged citizenry protested on political grounds, sometimes on artistic, but the space continued to get slapped. Last week, with 215 U. S. painters competing, two Chicagoans won the largest mural commission yet awarded by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine...
This week U. S. assembly lines were clogging in several bottlenecks. > Textiles, paper, paint, steel, drugs and other industries dependent on imports faced a possible contraction, no immediate expansion of supplies. Raw wool, silk, pulp, shellac, vegetable oils, tin, chrome, tungsten, manganese, quinine, menthol, camphor, narcotics, are among materials which reach the U. S. by trade routes jeopardized...
Precautions went screwy. To prevent autos from striking them during blackouts, cows and horses were painted with white stripes. Sandbags climbed walls like ivy, till there was such a shortage that some lingerie factories began making them. Instead of sandbags, the lawyers of Gray's Inn protected their windows with heavy legal tomes. A rabbi banned the sounding of Shophar ram's horn on the Jewish New Year for fear the populace would take it for an air-raid signal. Stores sold luminous paint for switches and doorknobs, "gas costumes" guaranteed to resist mustard gas 45 minutes, furniture...
...next the Normandie at her dock in Manhattan's North River. Her superstructure, more spotlessly white than ever, seemed to be suspended over a smudgy grey cloud that blended with wharves and water. The lower part of the ship had all but disappeared under a coat of grey paint. Day or two later the white superstructure almost disappeared too. The Queen Mary was not slapping on war paint (battleship grey is several tones bluer and less muddy) but was introducing the latest style in camouflage, a solid, sooty, flat grey...