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Hence my question: Why is Artist David, living in France's great age of classicism, when scholarly achievement was highly regarded, immune from criticism for an anachronism, when some poor Hollywood producer, whom no one expects to know anything, is berated for being a few years off in a matter of balloon tires? R. C. WEINBERG...
...Possibly Artist David painted a round arch because he liked it better. Much more probably he was guilty of a confusion common when scholarly enthusiasm was seldom reinforced by research. An anachronism unmentioned by alert Reader Weinberg: an inkwell with a hinged top. However. Artist David was careful to paint a krater (drinking-bowl) of the right shape, a lamp of the right proportion, a chain with figure-eight links, and a pen & scroll of correct design. He followed convention in putting curly hair on Socrates and all his companions...
...George H. Kay, 68-year-old landscape artist, blew out his brains in Cheyenne Wells, Col. fortnight ago. No U. S. artist ever sold so many pictures. A rapid draughtsman, he painted the same scene over & over again. In Kansas City a department store sold 6,000 original Kays by advertising OIL PAINTINGS BARGAIN PRICE $2.98. Before he died he left a note: "Cremate my body and scatter the ashes to the four winds of heaven. Everything is gone. I have 15? left." ¶Robert Spencer, able portraitist, 1928 judge of the Carnegie Institute International Exhibition at Pittsburgh, blew...
...Deputies passed a law known as the droit de suite (literally, "right of following") which attempts to do for the original works of a painter or sculptor what copyright laws do for the other arts.* By it at every public sale of a work of art. a French artist or his heirs collect royalties of 1% for sales of 1,000 to 10,000 francs, 1½% for sales between 10,000 and 20,000 francs, 2% for sales between 20,000 and 50,000 francs, and 3% for everything higher...
...order to protect an artist's heirs the droit de suite is obligatory, though it does not apply to private sales between artist and client. The law is effective for 50 years after the death of the artist. Both artists and collectors applaud...