Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual, lean, immaculate Dr. Valentiner had a sensation to put his show into the news columns. Among the canvases in Detroit was a small self-portrait of Frans Hals, baggy-eyed, slightly disheveled (see cut). It had just been sold by Manhattan's E. & A. Silberman Galleries to Dr. H. Klaus of Minneapolis. Helsingfors, Haarlem, and the Friedsam Collection in the Metropolitan Museum have other versions of the same picture. The last has always been considered the original. Not so, cried Dr. Valentiner last week. The Klaus canvas, he maintained, was the only genuine...
The two spinsters, however, crawled into.the junk's hold where they crouched under canvas. Remembering the fate of Missionaries Mr. & Mrs. John C. Stam whom Communists beheaded with a broad sword last month (TIME, Dec. 24), the ladies knew that discovery meant death. A word from the Chinese boatman...
To the 1933 spring exhibition of the Academy, an Australian artist named Stephen Bransgrove submitted a study of bulbous furry-footed horses entitled Clydesdales. Academicians liked it so well that they awarded it the $300 Ellen Speyer prize for animal portraiture, and knowing practically nothing about the artist, called him...
...honor to submit the canvas that he considers most typical of his recent work. Though no prizes are given the show is not without its rewards, because the museum has set aside a fund ot $20,000 to buy pictures for its own collection. Almost all the other canvases are for sale...
Along with Charles Sheeler's Shaker Buildings, Georgia O'Keeffe's This Autumn, Thomas Benton's Over the Hill, Leon Kroll's Road Through Willows, Edward Hopper's East Wind Over Weehawken, Henry Billings' Martha's Vineyard Sound, Reginald Marsh's...