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Schoolboys who retain from their history books an image of a pale, young Napoleon seizing the tricolor at the Battle of Arcole know the work of Baron Antoine Jean Gros. A pupil of David, the court painter and classicist, Gros took the field after he met Bonaparte at Milan and accompanied his army during the first Italian campaign. Charged by the Emperor with the duty of selecting artistic booty, he is responsible for the nucleus of the Louvre's vast treasury. Little known in the U. S., Gros was represented last week at Knoedler's by 17 pictures...
...Monet's Les Déchargeurs de Carbon. The artists ranged from such ununionized souls as Academician Jonas Lie and Merrymaker Doris Lee to Proletarians Joe Jones and Mervin Jules. The subject matter of Labor was conceived generously enough to admit a painting of industrial buildings by Classicist Charles Sheeler. Even more varied was a display of 180 prints and drawings, from the 15th Century to the present, from which visitors could get an idea of how differently Labor looked to Pieter Bruegel, to Honoré Daumier, to James A. McNeill Whistler...
...Classicist...
...them, he is an expatriate. A poet and critic long before he was a playwright alike, in his long poem The Waste Land (1922) and in his brilliant literary essays, he founded a movement. Becoming ever more conservative and religious-minded, Eliot finally, in 1927, stated his position as "classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion." All his later works are colored by this credo...
...when he was legally adopted in France by one Captain Audubon, who said he was the child's father. Variously called Fougere ("Fern"), La Foret, and plain Jean Jacques, the pampered child learned stalking tricks near his Nantes home. After brief study of painting under Classicist David, he was sent to America, where he devoted himself to sketching wild life, playfully at first, later so earnestly that he spent many years in almost incredible explorations-from Pennsylvania's Perkiomen River, under whose ice he was drawn one winter night; up the Hudson's shore, west...