Word: leech
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Artist Freeman never stays seated long, keeps popping up to jot down more bits of Manhattery. His drawings and paintings have the same crowded vitality that Cruikshank and Leech got into their illustrations of Dickens' London, the same knack of making ragpickers a touch romantic. Some of his canvases: Sax Sec-lion, a red-coated Negro band turning on the heat in Harlem; Chatham Square Street Fight, two stevedores sparring, while kids streak up to see the fun; Such Sweet Sorrow, a pair of drunks embracing under...