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...Albert Dreyfus. A very much guttered wax candle is snuffed by a scull; the smoke issuing from the eye sockets curls up in the form of two reclining; female figures. The whole piece is stained crimson. Afroyim covers one entire wall with his New York Underground, a woven pattern of subways, sewers and steam pipes. Morris Kantor, a cutter of clothes, shows two results of painting at night; one-My Job-is a portrait of himself at work...
...finger reproachfully at the jazzing East. He hasn't time. His heroes are always too much on the move?solving mysteries, pulling guns, cracking jokes, riding pintos, drinking redeye, winning heroines, proving that the accusations against them are (in large part) false? anyway exaggerated. This book follows the accepted pattern. He gives you what you want if you buy a book with this title?unencumbered by vast masses of sticky sentiment. And his plots are always astonishingly novel rearrangements of the old counters...
...Children's Hospital, at the New Willard Hotel, the first event of the kind at which they have been present. On the left of the Presidential box was Secretary Mellon; on the right, Secretary of State and Mrs. Hughes. Mrs. Coolidge wore "gold cloth brocaded in a flower pattern of Persian colors...
...artists in America. He lives frugally in a simple shack in the North Carolina mountains, does his own work except for a clay-boy and a horse to turn his mixing-wheel. From the rich mineral clay of the region he shapes and bakes vases and bowls of exquisite pattern and myriad hues-rose, amber, mahogany, violet, sang de boeuf. Some of his types, known as "Omar Khayyam vases," command high prices from connoisseurs. No two of his pieces are alike...
...lithographs, "palladium" prints and many other types of media showed the variety and aesthetic quality which camera art has attained. A feature was the group of "gum prints" of N. P. Moerdyke, director of the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles. Gum prints are made from a negative called a pattern, from which a retouched negative is transferred to paper in front of a light, eliminating or making prominent portions as desired. Tour printings are made on special watercolor paper, the negative being painted each time with gray or black pigments, bringing out the high lights, velvety shadows and soft lines...