Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Lavery's much-clawed-over portrait of Lady Lavery (TIME, Aug. 13) has found a resting-place. Lady Cunard, who held that Artist Lavery had been " insulted" when her offer to present the portrait to the Tate Gallery was rejected, has given it to the Guildhall Gallery, London. Lady Cunard is the wife of Sir Bache Edward Cunard (shipping magnate), and the daughter of the late E. F. Burke of New York. Lady Lavery was Miss Hazel Martyn, daughter of Edward Jenner Martyn of Chicago...
...past few years, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has arranged again to give its annual series of nine concerts in Cambridge to be held during the late Fall, Winter, and early Spring. The first of the series will be held next Thursday evening in Sanders Theatre. There will be an artist assisting at each of the concerts except the final performance on May 1. The list includes singers, pianists, and violinists chosen from the orchestra and soloists engaged for concerts in Boston...
...collection (Pittsburgh), the Evans and Gardiner collections (Boston), the Walters collection (Baltimore). The chief Metropolitan Rembrandts are the group of 13 bequeathed by Benjamin Altman in 1913, including the Old Woman Cutting Her Nails, Pilate Washing His Hands, Toilet of Bathsheba, one of the many self-portraits of the artist, and portraits of Hendrickje Stoffels, Rembrandt's housekeeper, mistress and second wife, and of Titus, his son by his first wife, Saskia van Uylenburg. There are also the Man with a Beard and the Portrait of a Man, of the Marquand collection, the Oriental, given by Mr. Vanderbilt...
...some years great groups of the illuminati have been proclaiming Charles S. Chaplin an artist. Yet our good old uncles and funny old aunts, who really knew about custard pies, demurred. They said that when one comedian dropped a lighted cigar down another comedian's trousers it was not art. And for their part they couldn't see anything funny in one man hitting another in the seat of what they termed "pants." In their day the seat of the, pardon us, trousers was a disciplinary objective; they refused, to admit the right of Charles Chaplin to make...
Died. Eduardo Calosso, 67, Italian artist, at Turin, of heart failure, while painting a portrait of Monsignor Bartolomei, Bishop of Pinerolo. The Bishop administered the last Sacraments to him before he expired...