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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND. DECEMBER gl, I91g.
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LIFE SKETCHES BY ARTIST WHO SENSES SPIRIT OF THE DAY
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A "Linoleum cut"
is awfully high
art nowadays.
Harry has just
got the results
from one labeled
"The Wife of
Lot," which he is
going to submit
to "Warp and
Wof," the
woolen dealers'
monthly, seeing
that Harry knows
the editor.
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AMONG
US MORTALS
The Very Fine Arts
BY W. .E. HILL
Cvp right. 1." New Tork Tribune Inc.
A modernist is Louis, whose worRhe explains, is a sincere attempt to get away
from the type of paintine which has a thought behind it or tafTs a story. Sig
nificant form for the form's sake is Jiis motto. Just as a concession to the
public, however, he has given the canvas, in the foreground a title :-"Impres.
sions of Oswego, N. Y."
Ethel is interior decorating. The parchment shade she ha
been painting has a motif of anrrle worms and cattails
it's so hard to be original nowadays!
The lady Batik artist, who does Batik designs on
fabrics, to be used in everything from a bath gown
a lamp shade.
li-u.-in o-om in for stae-e decoraTion. and Gordon Craie. Urban and Jones'had better look to t
beside him a stage set for the sleep-walking scene in "M -cbeth" which has no end of original ideas and will be
simple to put on, provided the manager sees his way clear to rebuild the proscenium, using Irwin's dimension.
Kiota does 'antique jewelry. The blow that was meant to driva
unt Maud's ruby into the silver setting landed pn Viola's finger.
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The modern poi-trait
painter. Claude feels
justly proud of the
fact that in gcttini
away from t he
aesthetic and nowa
days to be anybody
you must always be
petting away from
something he has
none ahead of the
jld school portrait
painter
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Mrs. Mae Hogbee would probably disclaim any leaning to
ward the fine arts! she might even go so far as to say aha
couldn't "even draw a straight line," which isn't so at all
when you consider that Mae has done a pretty good job on
her face -with red paint and eyebrow pencil, following her
own idea of what nature ought to be like
The lady who engineers the
pa;reant and does all the cos
tume designing. "Costumes
designed and exrcttted by"
etc. Clayton, who is to be
the spirit of Golden Bantam
Cotn in the agricultural epi
sode of a masque commemo
rating the twenty-fifth anni
versary of something or
other, is having his costume
.executed right on him.
Annette, who models in Hay, is working on a perfectly
stunning figure entitled "Thoughtfulness," a sequel to
Rodin's "Thinker." Annette is endeavoring to get away
from the classic- in sculpture. Already she is getting quit
a head start. And then, too, Annette is enabled to get away
from htr family for. hours at a time, which is something.