Word: varnum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rural Rockland County, N. Y., lives Potter Henry Varnum Poor who works with the diligence of a Greek, who never duplicates, who sells every piece he produces to pottery cognoscenti at prices often mounting into three figures. In U.S. ceramics, he is at the top. Last week his work was on exhibition at both the Montross and American Designers galleries in Manhattan...
...Henry Varnum Poor is a snub-nosed husky, dark from the sun. He was born in Kansas in 1888, attended Stanford University, studied painting at the Slade School and with Walter Sickert in London, and at the Julian Academy in Paris. After painting for several years, he found himself distressed by "the devitalizing isolation of the studio." Believing that modern art naturally tends to enhance utilitarian objects, Painter Poor became Potter Poor. He has now thoroughly infused his art with mundane strength. From shaping delicate urns and saucers, he turns cheerfully to designing a series of mosaic tiles...
Townsend Scholarships, A. H. Copeland 3G, of Rochester, N. Y. Marvin Farber 2G. of Buffalo, N. Y. A. R. Frey 1G, of New York City: D. P. Varnum 2G, of Stratbroy Ontario...
...Marshall of Wolfeville, N. S. (history); Raoul M. May 1G., of San Francisco (zoology); George W. Morris of Cincinnati, Ohio (geology); Charles M. S. Niver 1G., of Baltimore (fine arts); Kosaburo Shimizu 1G., of Vaucouver, B. C. (social ethics); Abraham G. Silverman of Stanford University, Calif. (economics); Daniel P. Varnum 1G., of Strathroy, Ont. (philosophy); and Irving H. White 1G., of Richmond, Va. (English...
...Marshall of Wolfeville, N. S. (history); Raoul M. May 1G., of San Francisco (zoology); George W. Morris of Cincinnati, Ohio (geology); Charles M. S. Niver 1G., of Baltimore (fine arts); Kosaburo Shimizu 1G., of Vaucouver, B. C. (social ethics); Abraham G. Silverman of Stanford University, Calif. (economics); Daniel P. Varnum 1G., of Strathroy, Ont. (philosophy); and Irving H. White 1G., of Richmond, Va. (English...