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Almost the only important living British painter not represented at Pittsburgh last week was Augustus John who entered the week's news by finishing, after three years of hastily snatched sittings, a portrait of fox-bearded Governor Montagu Collet Norman of the Bank of England. Between the time the face was sketched in charcoal and the final varnish was applied Governor Norman's beard changed from grey to white...
Like 16th Century conquistadores, European and U. S. intelligentsia have spent the past two years discovering Mexico. Mexico's modern painters, Mexico's folk arts, Mexico's archeological remains have been the subject of innumerable books and pamphlets, even of flights by Charles Augustus Lindbergh & wife. Latest to join the parade is Dr. Elie Faure, famed French critic, parlor anarchist, author of the most readable if not the most authoritative history of art. Recently he arrived in Los Angeles fresh from a visit to Mexico, on his way to Japan, and delivered an address to the California...
...Billy Orps. His career started in 1890 when he won a L2Q scholarship at the age of 12 and began to study painting at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. He went to London and studied at the Slade School when that dusty institute contained such promising pupils as Augustus John, Sir John Lavery, William Rothenstein. Billy Orps did not have to wait long for recognition. His humor, the firmness of his line, above all his brilliant use of color attracted inter national attention. Very soon he had more portrait com missions than he could handle. Tycoons besieged his studio...
...Wonderful!" Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh is a Smith alumna. Few such have teaed with First Lady Meiling. But for Anne & Charles Lindbergh the First Lady staged a very special tea last week at which President Chiang managed to be present...
Boston's Library Trustees' shield, designed in 1878 by the late Augustus Saint-Gaudens, has as supporters two nude children (male). On complaints from a group of citizens led by Rev. Michael A. Gearin, Mayor James Michael Curley requested last week that the supporters of the shield graven on the facade of the Mission Hill Public Library should have their pudenda shrouded in granite ribbons. Whether all reproductions of the shield should be similarly ribboned then became a hot argument in Boston...