1815 Compl. Monumental Reg. Calcutta 159 Sacred To the Memory of James Doyle Gunner of the Bengal Arty. who departed this Life Feby. the 10th 1813 Aged 30 years.

1862 S. P. Bankhead Let. 17 Apr. in War of Rebellion (U.S. War Dept.) X. i. 413 Capt. and Chief of Arty., First Corps, Army of the Mississippi.

1906 J. W. Burgess Civil War & Constit. 1859–65 I. iii. 64 Mr. Seward, on account of his activity in the organization of the arty..had been generally regarded as the man for the first place on the ticket.

1942 Gen 15 June 50/2 Their arty drove us off. He hit, exploded and burned.

1994 Soldier of Fortune Sept. 67/2 Once the arty leveled off we took the opportunity to return to the guerrilla base.

2003 A. Swofford Jarhead 194 No air, no arty, no mortars, not even a goddamn .50-caliber machine gun sitting on a ridge, two grand back.

1901 Academy 16 Mar. 221 The Kensington is its title; it is broad in the page, handsomely printed, and decidedly Art-y.

1910 Daily Chron. 5 Apr. 9/5 The house filled with badly made ‘arty’, not artistic, furniture.

1939 ‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air iv. v. 260 They were arty-looking houses, another of those sham-Tudor colonies.

1966 H. Davies New London Spy (1967) 35 Snobs can go to the posh pubs. Those who wish to be thought ‘with-it’ have the arty pubs.

1994 J. Galloway Foreign Parts xiii. 210 Then we went to Brief Encounter at an arty cinema he went to all the time: only foreign films and black and white.

1915 A. Pollitzer Let. Oct. (1990) 37 Did Dorothy write you how long we stood in line there—A man ahead of us—an awfully arty boy—handed in his slip & said securely ‘I'm registering for Mr...Bridgeman's Men's Life’.

1921 J. Galsworthy Six Short Plays 129 ‘Miss Hellgrove's a find, I think.’.. ‘Pretty?’.. ‘Arty?’

1945 Nebraska State Jrnl. 18 Jan. 6/4 A Hungarian dream-reader with a clientele of arty neurotics and generally no-account sons and daughters of well-to-do parents.

1963 Sat. Evening Post 15 June 4/2 Don't go too ‘arty’ on us.

1979 S. Wilson Greenish Man 13 I married Jane because she was arty—her mother runs a gallery.

2003 B. Trapido Frankie & Stankie vi. 120 The house was along the meandering Atlantic coast and, in it, he had collected a sort of home-boy salon of arty young Hollanders: painters, poets and intellectuals.

1901 Academy 12 Oct. 337 The infected age of artiness.

1928 Observer 22 July 9/2 The same unambitious artiness recurs page after page.

1963 F. C. Crews Pooh Perplex 104 It must be about Life, it must be lifelike (i.e., no decadent ‘artiness’ or ‘pure intellection’).

2007 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 Apr. (Mag.) 45 ‘Lucky Jim’..introduced something new in English letters, a voice that was defiantly at odds with the snobbery and artiness of the Bloomsbury generation.