Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortnight ago until Dr. Maximilian Toch, michro-chemist, arose to speak. Dr. Toch's specialty is the analysis of paint, the verification of works of art by microphotography. To the assembled scientists he showed numerous lantern slides, explained his theory: a painting may be identified by magnification of the artist's brushstrokes, which are as characteristic as his handwriting. Like a firecracker came a specific statement: None of the Rembrandts in the Metropolitan Museum is genuine, with the possible exception of The Gilder from the Havemeyer Collection...
...Webster and now president of Stone & Webster, Inc. His father was the late William Alfred Hovey, editor of the Boston Transcript. His grandfather was Charles Hovey, fiery Boston abolitionist. Chandler Hovey winters at Chestnut Hill, Boston, points with pride to some large China vases bearing paintings of Napoleon by Artist Jacques Louis David...
...Perry, a granddaughter of Oliver Hazard ("We-have-met-the-enemy-and -they -are -ours") Perry. He rather disliked and distrusted the U. S. scene, the U. S. citizenry. In his later years it gave him an actual physical revulsion to shake hands with or touch strangers. As an artist he had a magnificent sense of composition, easily held his own in a generation of great draughtsmen: Sargent, Homer, Pennell, Abbey. Critics rate him among his contemporaries somewhere between Edwin Blashfield and John Singer Sargent. Like theirs, his mural paintings were always in the Grand Manner, highly symbolical...
...South Sea sketches were on view last week. But Manhattan socialites were more interested in the opera of his sons and grandchildren. There were eleven of them in the show, ranging from 69-year-old Christopher Grant to 16-year-old John II. Water-colors by the three sons, Artist Bancel, Architect Christopher Grant, Retired Banker Oliver Hazard Perry, showed that they had drunk deep of Father John's medicine. Largest exhibits were the enormous cartoons for the mosaic tympanum of Washington's Trinity College Chapel by Son Bancel and Grandson Thomas Sergeant...
...establishment of such a public school would certainly be a progressive step. On the other hand, it is improbable that, as a headline suggests, the school would be able to bring out "budding genius." Genius has a habit of cutting across barriers, of refusing to be classified. The great artist or poet who failed at school is a familiar figure. Even if a classification is made specially to fit the unusual student, there will be a rub somewhere. A school for talent may fare well. A school for genius amounts to a contradiction in terms...