Word: beaux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noted authority on French Sculpture and painting, and former professor of the history of sculpture at the Louvre, will give a public lecture on Contemporary French sculpture in the Fogg Art Museum at 8 o'clock this evening. Reau, in addition to being a contributor to the Gazette des Beaux Arts, has been a lecturer, in St. Petersburg and Vienna. The lecture, which will be illustrated is given under the auspices of the Alliance Francais, and is open to the public...
...Museum, at The Museum on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. M. Reau has had a wide experience in the field of sculpture and related arts and besides being at one time professor of sculpture at the Ecole du Louvre, was a former editor of the Gazette des Beaux Arts. The public is cordially invited to attend his talk in the lecture room of the Fogg Museum...
From needlework Aristide Maillol turned to painting, studied under Cabanel at the Beaux Arts in Paris. For ten years he slaved over an easel with remarkably little success. When he was middleaged, he carved one day a nude figure in wood. It seemed the most satisfactory work he had ever done, and from then on Aristide Maillol was a sculptor. Recognition came first from Germany where, just before the War, his calm, placid nudes were hailed with delight as 'the essence of Greece...
...aristocracy of her Virginia town Mrs. Birdsong had become a legendary beauty long before she began to lose her looks. In the best tradition of famous belles she had married George, least eligible, most worthless of all her flocking beaux. George was a charmer, that goes without saying, but he was woman-crazy, could not even draw the color line. The situation was unfortunate but usual. Where Mrs. Birdsong deviated from the human to the holy was in refusing to do anything about it except by straining more & more to be George's ideal. Never natural when George was around...
...Jacques Kahn and Whitney Warren, had decided. Fran tically he jumped into a taxi, urged the driver to speed. They were arrested. At midnight Richard Granelli reached the Institute at last, heard the news that he had won the $4.000 prize, giving him 18 months at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, another twelve months of travel or study elsewhere. He kept his taxi, called up friends, did the town. Slight, enthusiastic, brown-eyed Prize man Granelli has had encouragement from Architect Henry Wildermuth and from 1921 Beaux-Arts Winner Lloyd Morgan, a junior partner of Architects Schultze & Weaver where...