Word: corots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Jean Philippe Worth, 70, famed Parisian couturier; in Paris. In his youth he studied painting under Corot. Said Hearst Editor Brisbane: "He has gone to a land where there is no sewing. . . . His word meant more in real authority to the world's women than all the decisions of a thousand high judges...
...pictures, 325 in number, had been chosen by a jury which for many weeks searched the U. S., selecting from proposed entries those which best recommended themselves to the eye, with a continual hope of discovering among young artists some mute, inglorious Millet, some untrumpeted Whistler or coy Corot. The pictures were put on view; prizes were awarded. To Eugene F. Savage of Manhattan went the Frank G. Logan medal, carrying with it $1,500, for his painting Recessional, which showed (lifesize) the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, fire in their nostrils, clouds in their hair, racing and racing down...
...Huntington (Los Angeles). In addition to the group of Rembrandts (probably the finest in the world), it contains several items acquired from the Morgan collection: some immensely valuable tapestries, two marbles by Donatello and paintings by such masters as Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romney, Constable, Holbein, Hals, Hobbema, Rubens, Millet, Corot, Daubigny, Dupre, Raphael, Tintoretto, Murillo, Goya, Velasquez...
...retouched negative is transferred to paper in front of a light, eliminating or making prominent portions as desired. Tour printings are made on special watercolor paper, the negative being painted each time with gray or black pigments, bringing out the high lights, velvety shadows and soft lines reminiscent of Corot. One gum print requires six hours of manual labor...
John Corbin: " The voice of a silver twilight peopling an atmosphere Corot might have imagined with multitudinous accents of the human spirit...