Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alexander III: " You are a great artist and an honor to Russia...
...order in which they should choose the works of art to which they are entitled. Thirty of them have now made their selections. Richard T. Crane, Jr., Chicago millionaire, led the field, and, with his pick of 114 intriguing oils and bronzes, carried off John Singer Sargent's contribution, Artist Sketching, a small self-portrait in a milieu of forest, valued at $5,000. The Sargent is inconspicuous, but the old masterful brushwork, heritage from Hals and Velasquez, is unmistakably there. George Eastman, the Rochester Kodak man and greatest musical bene- factor of his time, selected Gardner Symons' Winter Twilight...
...scheme of the Association is briefly this: The artist members and the lay members are equally divided. Each lay member pays $600 annually, for which he is entitled to one work of art, chosen by him in the order of his rank by lot. The artists donate one work annually for a period of three years. Some of the world's greatest artists are numbered in the group, whose works would command anywhere several times $600. On the other hand, there are many comparatively young and unknown, to whom this excellent plan comes as a godsend in marketing their wares...
...portrait of his wife, one of the show pieces of last year's Royal Academy. The governing committee refused to accept it, and the pot boiled over. Lady Cunard submitted her resignation from the committee in a caustic letter with the rebuke: "One cannot permit an artist of Lavery's distinction and age to be insulted like that." Lady Lavery and Lady Cunard are both Americans, and the rejection has been ascribed by some to anti-American prejudice. Others see in the incident a well laid scheme of the painter to have his wife immortalized in the exclusive...
Tilden : " Miss Negri is very charming, a great artist. . . . Of course there is nothing...