Word: art
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...portrait of President Harding is hanging in the White House because the joint congressional committee on the library, acting on recommendation of Charles Moore, chairman of the commission of fine arts, declined to accept either one of two portraits painted for that purpose by E. Hodgson Smart, a distinguished English artist. One of these portraits, described by Gertrude Richardson Brigham in Art and Archeology as "one of the few great portraits of a president," and considered by George B. Christian, the late President's friend and secretary, as the best painted likeness of Mr. Harding has been purchased...
...born in Kansas in 1888, attended Stanford University, studied painting at the Slade School and with Walter Sickert in London, and at the Julian Academy in Paris. After painting for several years, he found himself distressed by "the devitalizing isolation of the studio." Believing that modern art naturally tends to enhance utilitarian objects, Painter Poor became Potter Poor. He has now thoroughly infused his art with mundane strength. From shaping delicate urns and saucers, he turns cheerfully to designing a series of mosaic tiles for the Byzantine ceiling of the Union Dime Savings Bank in Manhattan, or a bathroom...
...legends. His most startling deed was the placing of a dollar sign in stone above the bridal door of fashionable St. Thomas's Church in Manhattan. Last week, in Manhattan's Chapel of the Intercession, which he also designed, Architect Goodhue's memorial tomb was dedicated. Art Critic Royal Cortissoz of Manhattan and Architect Milton Bennett Medary of Philadelphia spoke. Musicians from the Philharmonic-Symphony played...
...Morale et l'Art apropos de Balzac", Professor Allard, Emerson...
...meetings, the greater majority of which will be open to the public, will be held in the Phillips Brooks House and in the Fogg Art Museum. Morning sessions will start at 9.30 o'clock and the afternoon sessions will begin at 2.30 o'clock...