Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit Institute of Arts, in purchasing Henri Matisse's Interior, is one of the few public galleries in America to recognize the Post-Impressionists. The painting is an excellent example of the artist's ex-treme simplification of form, his strong outlines, his vivid blues, greens, oranges. Since the death of Renoir, Matisse has been generally ranked by advanced aesthetes of the Clive Bell school as the greatest painter of France-and therefore, of the world...
Fifty-eight years old, he was born, according to different authorities, either in Sligo (the wildest part of western Ireland), or in Dublin. His father, an artist, died a year ago in his Manhattan home...
Louis Betts, N. A., long a most facile portraitist, achieved the most coveted honor of the show, the Altman Prize of $1,000, with his Elizabeth Betts of Wortham, by whom hangs a tale. This lady was an ancestress of the artist, embalmed in the family archives as a "sad spinster of 21." She quarreled with her lover, who straightway went off to the wars. To regain his love, she made herself a most marvelous frock and went to call on his sister. Whether the strategem succeeded we are not told, but Mr. Betts, aided only by an old print...
Died. Miss Hope Christy, sister of Artist Howard Chandler Christy, at Columbus, Ohio...
...husband has devoted her life to being her husband's slave, and raising for him a last and not always welcome family. Pan who is not born until well on in the story, and barely survives his drunker father's anger, turns out to be something of an artist. His mother manages to secure for him a fairly good education and he obtains a rather good position in the critical end of a stocking factory. Here he continues for the balance of the book...