Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A scare of "fake" was thrown into the art world a few days ago when the Boston newspapers revealed that the Boston Museum of Fine Arts had been fleeced of nearly $100,000 for spurious paintings among which was a highly prized canvas supposed to have been by El Greco...
Interesting was the fact that great international art exhibitions (Burlington House Exhibition, London; Rembrandt Exhibition, Amsterdam) have not been given without serious damage to some of the works exhibited. Jan Vermeer's "Head of a Young Girl" was returned to The Hague badly cracked from sudden changes in temperature...
All calculations have, however, been made with the prospect of having a good dry field for the game. But yesterday the weather man changed the aspect of the tilt by ordering rain, and although he has promised fair weather for today there is no telling just what the field will...
Both boats as usual carried every stitch of canvas they had. Often The baud dipped her rail into the wash, but Bluenose, heavier and longer, stood up. Before long Thebaud pulled away. Her sails were better cut and set and she pulled smoothly into the wind; Bluenose's big...
*Murdock Pemberton, Kansas-born art critic of The New Yorker, woman's club lecturer, is even more definite, lists the four greatest living painters thus: Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Derain. All except Matisse, who as a judge cannot show, are exhibiting in Pittsburgh. *Paul Gauguin, morose Post-Impressionist painter of...