Word: academicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statue was brought to the U. S. by Edith Lutyens, niece of famed English Royal Academician Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens. As Miss Lutyens was on the point of leaving London Sculptor Epstein impulsively put it in her care. It was not even wrapped. Before she got to the boat tram air-raid alarms sounded. "The blitz was quite strong and the guns were cracking off and shrapnel was whizzing about," said Miss Lutyens, describing her flight later. "I was absolutely terrified that it would be hit or have a hand or its head knocked...
...most of the problem wizards of the air. Manhattan-born, now 44, Mr. Anthony boasts that he has dabbled in law, studied psychology under Freud, claims that he holds three degrees from assorted universities. On the ground that he doesn't want to be looked upon as an academician, he refuses to divulge the names of his alma maters. He abhors the U. S. educational system. "It isn't," he remarks, "worth a goodgoddam...
Mild-looking, baldish Georges Rouault, who was born in a bomb shelter during the Paris Commune, is now 69, is presumably living and working in occupied France, perhaps in Paris, where he holds a sinecure as director of a museum full of fairy-tale paintings by his teacher, Academician Gustave Moreau. Today a good Rouault costs about $3,500. For the Institute's Rouault show, Director Plaut was unable to import any paintings from Europe, or even to borrow one from the late exhibition at the New York World's Fair. He collected his show from...