Word: mannering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Artist Brown draws as he talks, crudely, positively, in a manner that admits of no erasures, no changes. He applies color in broad flat washes. Critics find his matter pleasing, his manner undeveloped. They take refuge in the safe expression, "promising...
...smaller, sallower edition of the late Sir Henry Irving. He habitually wears high stiff collars, enjoys fishing. It is 22 years since Alfred Stieglitz, a distinguished photographer in his own right, first found John Marin in Paris making a precarious living by meticulously etching French cathedrals in the Whistler manner. In reaction to this intricate scratchwork he would go to the country, paint rapidly with loose splashes of color. Alfred Stieglitz had little sympathy with the Whistlerian etchings, but greatly admired the Marin water colors which were in reality shorthand notes for pictures by a man with a laborious technical...
...persons each is bad enough. The unfortunate quality of the men controlling state politics presents as actual and certainly a more difficult obstacle. Since Massachusetts over a century ago instituted the general practice of gerrymandering, a strategic system whereby the party in office arranges the sections in such a manner that the voting power results in abnormal splits which always favors its own candidates, the thing has become a habit despite gentle dissuasion by more idealistic elements...
...company grew in its field, Dr. Dow became increasingly prominent in his profession. Last January he was awarded the Perkin Medal, was nominated by Henry Ford for the Chemical Markets Medal (awarded, however to Pierre Samuel du Pont).? Henry Ford's nomination praised Dr. Dow for the scientific manner in which his plant was managed. Said Mr. Ford: "He is a most distinguished and successful representative of the American chemist who is also an executive, an engineer, and a manufacturer. As technician, and as businessman, his policy is founded upon a rare conception of chemistry's place...
...open secret that although the Foundation has an admissions committee which goes through the formality of inspecting the paintings submitted by candidates, most of the artists who go to Laurelton Hall for the summer are personally invited by Director Lothrop. Nearly all of them paint in the modern manner. There is only one restriction. At Laurelton Hall they must paint outdoors, from Nature. Every Saturday Founder Tiffany, dignified in his long grey beard and with an orchid in his buttonhole, inspects their work, politely puzzled...