Word: ackermann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at Ackermann's gallery in London, Peter Markham Scott's seventh exhibition of paintings testified to the industry of one of England's least indolent young men. Broad-shouldered, shock-headed Artist Scott inherited not only his father's features but his liking for open air. At intellectual Trinity College, Cambridge, he lived unsociably with a pet snake and an owl, spent his vacations duck-hunting and sailing. For his painting he chose an open-air subject-wild fowl...
...their flight. Eventually he hopes to sober up a tendency to melodramatic color. He turns out one painting a week as a fair average, usually sells out his annual show. His mother, now Lady Kennet, an accomplished professional sculptress whose new bust of Bernard Shaw was also shown at Ackermann's, thinks her son is "preposterously prosperous...
...might be expected the commonest hobby was watercolor sketching. Dozens of renderings of Rome, Spain and the coast of Maine hung on the walls. Architects Frederick Ackermann and John Russell Pope showed photographs. There were other hobbies, more original...