Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Humphrey Ward delivered the first of his lectures on English art before a large audience in Sanders Theatre last evening. Professor Norton in a few appropriate words introduced him. Mr. Ward is well-known as art critic of the London Times and by his collection of the English poets...
...Ward began by saying that every one in recent years has come in contact with the world of art. Interest in art has rapidly increased, especially in the paintings of the English school. Twenty-five years ago the much-coveted paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Romney were ranked with the works of third rate artists. Today no pictures are so popular as those of the old masters; and the highest price ever brought at Christian's was for a Sir Joshua. In landscape painting we look back from the present school to Corot and Daubigny, and from them...
Going back still further we notice the predecessors of Reynolds and the vicissitudes through which they must have passed. Jean Rouquet in his "State of Art in England" shows how precarious was the condition of painters in those times. No encouragement was offered by the government, while the stern doctrines of the puritans forbade the decoration of churches by religious paintings. It was portraiture that came to the rescue and stood as the medium between failure and success...
...William C. White, of Madison avenue, who is an expert in the art of cooking, is to utilize her talent for the benefit of Harvard students. She has taken a house at Cambridge and it ought not to be long before her boarding-house wins the popularity it is sure to deserve. There appears to be a demand for superior service in this line. - Springfield Republican...
Lecture. English Art in the Eighteenth Century - II. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Mr. Humphrey Ward. Sanders Theatre...