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...Kent, Eugene Speicher, Horse-Painter A. J. Munnings, Dame Laura Knight, Dod Proctor, Art Theorist Roger Elliot Fry. Yet second prize went to one Alexander Brook of New York, third prize ($500) to Charles Dufresne of Paris. Since Picasso's portrait of his wife is not for sale, Artist Brook's still-life of a cat, three peaches, a begonia and a door brought him $2,000-the Albert C. Lehmann prize for the best purchasable painting. One artist who won no prizes but many a press notice was tousle-haired John Kane of Pittsburgh. Artist John Kane...
...both sides of the continent critics and public now have a chance to judge the mature work of a painter who has become almost as essential to smart dinner table conversation as backgammon: Jose Clemente Orozco. Vibrant, intensely serious Artist Orozco is Mexican, of lineage from the 15th Century Conquistador es. One-armed, squarejawed, thickset, with glittering spectacles he looks not unlike an ecstatic bullfrog. In 1922, after a painful apprenticeship tinting postcards in California and drawing scathing cartoons in Mexico, he joined the famed Syndicate of Revolutionary Artists organized by Minister of Education Jose Vasconcelos.* Led by spectacular, pistol...
...view of Orozco is obtainable this week at the Metropolitan Museum, Manhattan. Two of his huge canvases are part of the loan exhibition of Mexican art circulated by the Carnegie Institute and the American Federation of Arts, sponsored by ex-Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow and Dr. Frederick A. Keppel. Artist Orozco himself is further downtown squatting on a scaffold in the new School of Social Research, painting great swirling designs on wet plaster with a very small brush. Beside him his master plasterer and assistant Juan Jorge Crespo, prepares the wall for Orozco to paint, two square yards...
...prints on display are chiefly from the collection of the Fogg Museum, but a few important subjects lacking in that collection have been loaned by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The exhibition illustrates the artist's work from his early period, when he used his own face and those of members of his family as models, and worked in pure etching with delicate strokes, to his later periods when his work took on bolder characteristics and when his work combined freely dry-point with etched line...
...famous radio artist and conductor of the Connecticut Yankees, interviewed between performances at the Brooklyn Paramount theatre, where he has been appearing as master of ceremonies, was surprised when shown news dispatches from Cambridge stating that he would not be allowed to use the songs. It is understood that records played by Vallee's orchestra are now in preparation...