Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next to formal portraits, Britons love sporting pictures best. Prolific Alfred J. Munnings, whom even the most hothouse esthetes admit to be a great artist, shrewdly combined both with a picture of sanctified George V riding in plus fours and gaiters on his favorite fat little pony Jock at Sandringham (see cut). Worried questions about Jock were among the last words King George ever spoke. It was Jock, with stirrups reversed, who followed his master's coffin from Sandringham House to the railway station. Sure to become one of the most popular of all Artist Munnings' color plates...
Recently hung in the eighteenth century gallery at the Fogg Museum is a family group by the English artist, Arthur Devis. The work is entitled Sir Josiah Vanneck and his Family...
...picture represents a type which is seldom seen here and is by an artist who is little known in America. Although Devis is usually thought of as one of the lesser lights of the eighteenth century, half way between Hogarth and Gainsborough, he is to collectors a well known but rare figure, and his pictures as a rule bring very good prices...
...Opera, he was called "the world's greatest tenor." Eleven years later when Gigli refused to take a 10% salary cut to help the staggering Metropolitan keep going, he was called names far less flattering, which so ''diminished" his "dignity as a man and as an artist'' that he went back to Europe in a huff. Said he: "If the American people will express the wish to have me here again, I'll gladly return and sing with all my soul." For five years Sparrow Gigli warbled in Continental concerts, grew a paunch...
...main difficulties were getting the right people to talk (the wrong ones talked too much), getting permission to visit such points of interest as Southern coal mines, Butte copper mines. Artist and writer acquaintances talked freely but about two most vital subjects, Southern history and Negroes, they seemed "inhuman, almost mad." When he asked permission to go down in a coal mine the owner said: "We are only one company, and we don't wish to monopolize this gentleman's time. Why don't you go to another company and ask them to show you their mines...