Word: canvased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The accoutrement for the Crimson team of 1881 consisted of high baseball shoes with leather strips on the soles, crimson stockings and jerseys, with a white canvas jacket over the jersey, and knee breeches that once had been white. There were no pads or head gears or similar protection, for...
Composed entirely of accepted modernist leaders, the exhibition proved that the freakishness of cubism, vorticism, other truculent cults, is quite defunct. There was little that was crude, nothing that was incoherent. Gaugin's bizarre self-portrait seemed to link his face with his own favorite Tahitian fruits; the sardonic humor...
Included in the exhibition are the famous Athenaeum paintings of George and Martha Washington. Of them spoke John Neal in the Atlantic Monthly (1868), saying: "If Washington should return to life and stand side by side with the portrait and not resemble it he would be called an impostor." Also...
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...
But the designing strangers, Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen, had not reckoned on the many patriotic Dutchmen, particularly the cosmopolite Deterding. He sped over from London. When the bidding began the potency of Dutch oil, of Dutch nurture, became plain. The Letter by Gerard Terboch stood on the easel, a slight canvas...