Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Death, as to many a young soldier, came to Henri Gaudier in 1915, when he was 23. He was good at fighting and had risen to be a sergeant. Far from being a professional soldier, he was an artist, a radical who had left France to escape his military service. But he was a whole-hogger: when he did anything he did it like St. Michael chasing Lucifer from heaven...
Drawings and prints by the great Spanish satirical artist, Goya, lent to the Fogg Art Museum by various private collectors, are to be shown until April 1. These works, which have been passed on view for some time and have passed almost unnoticed, constitute the most representative Goya collection in America, there being only two drawings by the master in the country which are not in this exhibition...
...middle of the XVIII-century. It represents a monkey painting a picture for a group of animal spectators. The other painting is of an earlier date, a portrait of a man by Nicholas do Largilliere. Largilliere was one of the greatest portrait painters of his time, and was appointed artist to the French and British Courts for many years...
...herself from the nips of Harland B. Tibbetts, one of the Seabury legal terriers. In one instance a Methodist Deaconess had brought a 20-year-old Greenwich Village girl art student into court, accused her of living with a man. By Judge Norris' order and without recourse, the artist was lodged in a home for wayward girls within two hours of her arrest. Throughout the recital of her alleged irregularities Magistrate Norris preserved a frigid calm, gave as good as she received. But yeast proved her undoing...
...Madonna and Child" of Lorenzo di Credi, an Italian artist whose dates are 1450-1537, is shown in its cleaned state...