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Started in 1926 as a novelty for Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden, the Rangers, under Manager Patrick, were developed into an effective machine of famed players including Frank Boucher, Bill & Bun Cook, Murray Murdoch, Ching Johnson, who won the Stanley Cup twice...
...here. The accomplishment of the sixteenth can be seen in aportrait by Francois Clouet, of the seventeenth in a wash drawing of landscape by Claude. The special character of the eighteenth, in attitude as in drawing is revealed in a series of red crayon studies by Watteau and Fragonard, Boucher and Greuze...
...modern art," said Mr. Widener blandly. "What I think we should do is acquire the classics-those paintings which have lived through the centuries." Uppermost in Mr. Widener's mind, he said, was his favorite period- the French 18th Century - and particularly two paintings by François Boucher, who, had he lived two centuries later, would have made a fortune painting dimpled ladies for the covers of sentimental magazines. The Philadelphia Artists' Union hotly demanded that someone fire the Wilstach administrator. Even moderate Philadelphians took alarm...
Fortnight ago Joseph Widener had his little joke. He announced that the large canvas which he had conveyed in great secrecy from Paris last spring was no Boucher but a painting by Paul Cézanne which has been regarded as one of the great masterpieces of modern art, Les Grandes Baigneuses, the longest-meditated of Cézanne's numerous studies of nude figures against landscape. Its title, The Big Bathers, distinguishing it from others in the Bathers series, refers to the size of the canvas: 6 ft. 10 in. by 8 ft. 3 in. It was acquired...
Washington and Jefferson College (Washington, Pa.) President Chauncey Samuel Boucher of West Virginia University ......................LL.D Columnist Mark Sullivan ....................LL.D