Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether or not a museum as conservative as the Metropolitan would accept the Barnes collection, is a question. It contains some 700 pieces by the very modernest of the modernists. It has the bevy of nude ladies which Artist Renoir painted in his pensive way and called "Les Baigneuses," and which the Louvre failed to accept as a gift from Artist Renoir's sons. It contains tortured Goyas, and stark El Grecos; bold, eye-shaking Manets, Monets, Picassos, Soutines, Matisses, Van Goghs. It has many a tired ballet dancer by Degas, many an illuminating piece of fruit...
...Hurston, Negro novelists, of many another Negro author who has written realistic, often tragic narratives of the Negro masses. "Why doesn't Jean Toomer write about nice people?" asked the Washingtonians. Why didn't Rudolph Fisher's City of Refuge* deal with "decent folks"? And they objected to Negro Artist Winold Reiss's drawings of Negroes because he "made his colored people look so colored." Of the whole radical school of young Negro authors they said, pityingly, disapprovingly: "Lord help these bad New Negroes...
...which Author Hughes made venomous reply: To those who objected that Artist Reiss had pictured colored schoolteachers in regrettably dark tints he replied: "Should all teachers resemble the high-yellow ladies dominating the Washington school system?" Of the upper-crust Negroes as a class he observed: "Many of the so-called best Negroes are in a sort of nouveau riche class, so from the snobbishness of their positions they hold the false belief that if the stories of Fisher were only about better class people they would be better stories." As to these "best" Negroes' complaint that their lives...
Haven Putnam, daughter of Archaeologist-Artist Joseph Lindon Smith, who executed the mural decorations in the Boston Public Library and has made numerous excavations in Egypt; to William Ambrose Taylor Jr., onetime U, S. diplomat...
...illuminated Persian manuscript of the Koran, an illuminated edition, of Francis Bacon's "On Garden's", by Sangerski, and the Japanese artist Hokusal's "Instruction for Begginners" form the last part of the collection...