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...done plenty. Jonas Lie is a National Academician, painter member of New York's City Art Commission, and a director of the Art Students' League. He was born in Norway in 1880, in his own words "by accident of a Norwegian father and an American mother of Scotch ancestry from Massachusetts." A thoroughly academic training gave him great technical dexterity with paint, no very revolutionary ideas to express on canvas. He is famed for pleasant, decorative landscapes and pictures of sailboats off rocky shores. He invariably wears the purple and gold rosette of the National Institute of Arts and Letters...
...without the leavening influence of practical experience. They are able to see the beauty of a world without strife, but they cannot bring forth the remedies which will ensure it. The Peace Treaty of President Wilson shows the danger of entrusting the political fortunes of the world to an academician...
...that was temporarily occupying the Secretariat's exalted minds was the low state of Poetry. The Assembly looked more like a publisher's tea than a political assembly. Present as members of the new League Committee on Arts & Letters were: Poet Laureate John Masefield of England, French Academician Paul Valery, German Nobleman Thomas Mann, Italy's Ugo Ojetti, Norway's Nina Roll-Anker. Professor Gilbert Murray (Oxford English Dictionary) was there in his capacity as President of the International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation. The delegates spent most of their time rushing about with fountain pens...
...presenting the material about the two famous Englishmen, Dr. Davison wasted no time with lengthy and wordy dissertations on the technical intricacies of the music, and avoided any internal analysis of the origin and influences on Gilbert's compositions, which although of interest to the academician, are of minor concern to the average person interested in music...
Reginald Grenville Eves, once known as a protege of that bearded New Englander John Singer Sargent, now famed as a portraitist, submitted three slick and shiny pictures. They were instantly accepted, for Reginald Eves was up for election as an Academician. A few days later long-suffering Sir William Llewellyn discovered that they were actually what many critics have called most Academy portraits: colored photographs. Sly Reginald had pasted tissue paper enlargements on canvas, colored them with oil paint. This was certainly not cricket! The pictures were thrown out, Reginald Eves was blackballed. Said Artist Eves...