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Coles Phillips – Illustrator

The originator of the Fadeaway Girl is not of the long-haired, flowing bow-tie variety of artists, but prides himself on his practicality and enjoys having his friends call him “sane and business-like,” which he is. He lives in New Rochelle, the New York suburb which now has another claim to fame than the fact that [...]

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Renee Prahar, Sculptor – 1922 Article

A Pioneer in the fantastic and the grotesque, is what Henry McBride, the art critic, calls Renee Prahar, the sculptor. And a New York gallery is showing so much of her work as to support the attribution.
“Nothing could seem stranger in description—to prove so beautiful when seen—than the ‘monkey room,’ one of three interiors which will [...]

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