Word: bonheur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John F. Herring, in which four Dobbins are shown placidly chomping foliage in the company of pigeons. Reproductions of Friends hang in half a million U. S. homes where horse-appeal means more than esthetics. Artist Herring was a British coachman, painted inn signboards, countless glossy thoroughbreds. Unlike Rosa Bonheur, he was not primarily concerned with equine rhythms, taut muscles. But he waxed sentimental over horses' heads, manes...
...fine arts. They have aspired to them, plodded away at them, had very creditable results in occasional instances. They have produced a painter like Mary Cassatt, but Painter Cassatt specialized in women & children, in subjects bound to be peculiarly within a woman's scope: like Rosa Bonheur, whose specialty was domestic animals. There are no women's names to be ranked with Velasquez, Franz Hals, Romney, Holbein. True, in literature they have done more with such handmaidens as George Eliot, Jane Austin, Charlotte Brontë, to put against Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe. But in music the situation is back...
...Where did you get them?' And when he heard-il bondit de 1'abime de désespoir au pinnacle de bonheur, and became perfectly bombastic and triumphant, as the Savior of his Country. . . . You see, he is a poet; Morgan is a poet...
There were a marble bust and a slim bather spun in clay by Barbara Herbert of Manhattan, first U. S. sculptress ever admitted to the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Rosa Bonheur's pupil, Anna Klumpke of California, showed a hot-colored flower study. Young George Hill, who preserves what he can of the solitude and fresh air of his native northern Michigan by living in one of the loftiest studios on the Boulevard de Montparnasse, received fresh compliments for his clear, restful "Tea on a Balcony...
Eclipsed for an hour, he turned to his pen. Steadily there flowed out upon literary France the prodigious flood of his pent up genius: La, Melée Sociale, Le Grand Pan, Le Voile du Bonheur, etc., ad infinitum. His published works have swelled to the equivalent of 35,000 ordinary novel-size pages...