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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italianate landscapes went out. Not since 1881 had Washington Allston's work been given a full showing. Two years ago, Edgar P. Richardson, director of Detroit's Institute of Arts, decided that Allston's works were "the first important landscapes of mood painted by an American artist." Richardson rounded up 66 paintings and drawings, put them on exhibition. Last week, after two months in Detroit, the Allston show opened in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Unfinished Feast | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...English collector [Stannard] had "rescued from oblivion Henry's earliest known portrait." There is a quite authentic and well-known "Portrait of Henry VIII as a Child" [see cut) which antedates the portrait in question by some 15 years. The childhood portrait, made about 1494 by an unknown artist, has in recent years belonged to the collection of the Verney family at Rhianva, Anglesey, England. It shows that even as a child of four, Henry displayed that heavy jowl and petulant mouth which Holbein the Younger was later to immortalize on canvas. FRANKLIN M. WRIGHT Ithaca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...Ewell Blackwell was the National League's strike-out king. He was baseball's top pitcher, with 15 wins, 2 defeats. He had also pitched 1947's first major league no-hitter (TIME, June 30). Already fans were comparing him to the great strikeout artist Bob Feller, who ducked last week's All-Star game because of a back injury (but pitched and won for Cleveland two days later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Man Who Doesn't Worry | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Mozart's Symphony No. 28 in C Major, the third movement from Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Strauss's Artist's Life waltz, world premiere of Arthur Lange's Antelope Valley. Conductor: Frank Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Married. Maria Elizabeth Sieber, 22, plumpish actress daughter of svelte Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich; and William Riva, 27, Manhattan artist; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 14, 1947 | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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