Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victor McCloskey, bespectacled dean of U.S. stamp designers, was laboring last week on a stamp scheduled for issue in November, honoring a Miss Moina Michael of Georgia. It took about as much imagination as cutting paper dolls, for McCloskey was following -by order of the Post Office Department -a sketch submitted by Congressman Paul Brown (of Georgia, naturally), who had sponsored the stamp in the first place...
Most artists had been content to sketch typical New York scenes-Central Park, Times Square-in gay or dramatic lights. Others had hoped to do for Manhattan what Pissarro did for Paris, Guardi for Venice and Whistler for London. Among those who had made the difficult attempt to discover Manhattan's essential qualities and translate them into art, at least four had partially succeeded...
...prepare for the show, experts had spent almost a year cleaning the dun varnish from French canvases, restoring to them the clear bright colors David had intended. His pen-drawing of Marie-Antoinette on her way to the guillotine, which David was cool enough and history-minded enough to sketch on the spot, was an unassuming example of his naturally incisive draftsmanship and genius for portraiture...
...gaunt, gaudy Broadway writer-producer (So Long Letty, White Cargo, Vanities), latter-day Hollywood nightclub owner; in an airplane crash; near Mt. Carmel, Pa. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Carroll got his start as a lyricist for the late Enrico Caruso, went on to produce 15 editions of his Vanities, two Sketch Books. He declared bankruptcy in 1936, two years later opened his colossal nightclub...
...eighth day ... I was astonished to be able to recognize a landscape in which a house appeared in the distance and a young woman on a path, with a child and two dogs beside her. From that time on Bonnard no longer referred to his sketch. He would step back to observe the effect of the juxtaposed tones; occasionally he would place a dab of color with his finger, then another next to the first. On about the fifteenth day I asked him how long he thought it would take . . . Bonnard replied: 'I finished it this morning...