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Manhattan critics found in this collection no profundity but considerable charm, gaiety and first-class brushwork...
...history of the Civil War or even of Grant's campaigns, Ulysses S. Grant is an avowedly partisan attempt to paint Grant with whitewash bright and glistening. Biographer McCormick lays it on thick but his able brushwork does bring out the sturdy lines of his hero's dingy figure. Grant, like his 15-year senior, Lee, served in the Mexican War, but his no less brilliant accomplishments were overlooked, says McCormick. Shortly afterward he resigned from the army, under the accusation of intoxication while paying off troops. His belligerent biographer does not admit the truth of the charge...
...contrast, however, there are such pictures as "Hungarian Village" by Denes Csanky. A curious Combination of Impressionism and pretty subject matter cannot make up for the "fuzzy" quality of the brushwork, and the rather weak colors...
Dying at 72, Artist Stuart's brushwork remained unimpaired, though he is said to have been forced to ask a friend (George Brimmer) to sign a canvas for him, his hand being too shaky. As a rule he neither signed nor completed portraits. His daughter Jane is said to have completed many of them for him, his interest ending when he had done the face...
...Joshua Reynolds flattered 18th century women with his graceful, glimmering brushwork. But when he painted self-portraits, which he did at least 45 times, he exercised all the artistic honesty that Rus- kin could have wished. One of the last of his self-portraits has been acquired by the Ferargil Galleries. The stately, long-nosed Sir Joshua wears the rickety spectacles that were harbingers of his pitifully failing eyesight. For him, shining satins would not much longer shine. Shortly after completing this prophetic portrait he made a stoically doleful remark. "All things have an end," he said, "and I have...