Word: greys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Black River. Mrs. Sarah Pollard, 87, aunt of President Coolidge, told how the flood came to Proctorsville, Vt., shaking that hamlet at night "like a huge, grey monster...
...London to see Mr. Knight's first picture exhibited. Laura Knight sold her first picture (Mother and Child) to Edward Staff, A. R. A. Two years later another picture (A Cup of Tea by Mr. Knight) was sold. Next, they went to Holland where their work became dusky, grey, contemplative. Stubbornly refusing to paint pictures solely that they might sell, ana thereby condemn the creators to continue painting in the same mood, they went to Cornwall. On this stormy, cloudswept coast they discovered color, gaiety. Ten years passed and galleries began to buy their pictures. They won scholarships, medals...
...Idea: "Furniture of the 4th Dimension." The Motive: To make small flats efficient; to follow skyscraper architecture; to initiate black, grey, silver as in modern dress. The Story: "When we have cast aside the sedulous mimicking of modes of a bygone era, then and then only shall our decorative art be truly creative." So said last week famed Paul Theodore Frankl* of the Frankl Galleries, Manhattan. Paul Theodore Frankl has designed "architectural" or "skyscraper" bookcases & dressing tables that tower in tiers, armchairs that are at once squat & graceful, a "step table" for books, and a "narrow chest of drawers...
...portraiture we find several examples that are worthy of attention. The portrait of "Hervey Wetzel" is one of the best with its fine composition, line, and tonality. It is a three-quarter length in profile against a silvery grey background. Henry Wetzel is seated on a chair, the outline of which is a soft undulating line. The splendid contrast of this with the hard vertical lines in the background adds aesthetically to the pictures. The eye also follows diagonal lines all of which form into a well balanced composition. The features themselves are obviously well done and strongly painted...
...scene at the admitting ward of New York's Bellevue Hospital is one that haunts prowlers about the city. Mansard windows look down from a great grey building at a quadrangle dismal even in daytime. Four or five ambulances are always in the court; the ambulance surgeons (hospital internes in wrinkled white) fidgeting in and out of the admitting ward...