11.   Just restored to print, this is the first novel of a writer now known as a modern master of, well, the grotesque.

12.   Modern masters of ancient skills plied their trades in the building.

13.   No one would quibble with his selection of Chekhov, Hemingway and Borges as the modern masters of the short tale.

14.   Occurring uptown and down, they range from the work of established modern masters to that of up-and-coming artists whose names do not yet ring a bell.

15.   Officials at SFMoMA hope Wattis will eventually donate the painting, as she has with works by modern masters including Magritte, Mondrian, Warhol and LeWitt.

16.   Purchases included prints by Duerer, Rembrandt and Manet and the modern masters, as well as work by living artists, another first.

17.   She also came to know other modern masters, including Chagall, Albers, Miro and Louise Nevelson.

18.   The graceful, charming, ironic shorter works of a modern Italian master.

19.   The modern masters learned about their craft in part from performing with companies.

20.   Their suggestions ranged from history and biography to serious fiction and even a little something from the modern master of horror.