Word: artists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Robert Henri, 64, of Manhattan, artist (La Neige, Spanish Gypsy, Willie Gee, Dutch Joe), teacher of Artists George Bellows and Rockwell Kent; in Manhattan...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Robert Henri (pronounced Hen-Rye), 64, outstanding U. S. artist, sick since last autumn in St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan...
...studied at the Pennsylvania and Julien (Paris) Academies, at the Paris Beaux-Arts. French precision and orthodoxy never made him feel com fortable. Strolling the corridors of the Louvre, he revered Rembrandt, Velasquez, Hals, but was long unable to evolve con victions of his own. Like most fine artists, he remained, even after success, a student of the masters. "Put on a pair of false whiskers so you won't be bothered," he wrote. "I am thinking of a series of disguises for myself so that I can go to picture galleries and look . . . and think. . . ." Impressionism permanently affected...
...Josnua Reynolds weightily pronounced blue to be unsuitable as a prevailing color in paintings. Almost simultaneously Artist Thomas Gainsborough produced his famed Blue Boy, intentionally or not a complete confutation of haughty Artist Reynolds...
...Devil, glib, cynical, disguised as a man, adroitly diminishes the distance between two who love, an artist and a banker's wife. With this farce Producer Henry W. Savage introduced Molnar...