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...opening bang-haired Royal Cortissoz, most learned of Manhattan's art critics, sat himself down to test the library's resources. Shooting his cuffs, he called for material on Botticelli's Abundance in the British Museum and the portrait of Alessandro del Borro in Berlin. The telautograph squiggled and in a few minutes stack girls emerged with two folders. Critic Cortissoz' little goatee waggled with pleasure to find attached to an excellent photograph of the Botticelli drawing the date, a list of all the reproductions that have ever been published, all previous owners, all exhibitions...
Supplying Mr. Cortissoz' wants was child's play for Librarian Ethelwyn Manning and her 30 assistants. She is prouder of the library's special services. The library has the finest collection of photographs of illuminated manuscripts in the world. Frick photographers have toured the Pyrenees taking pictures of Romanesque and Gothic paintings made long before Giotto was born. Over 1,000 portraits and miniatures have been photographed in private homes in Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Nantucket, Pittsburgh and Bermuda. The library is not too busy to recommend reading lists for ladies' clubs...
...past 30 years, divided sharply between his atmospheric, human scenes of pre-War New York that everyone likes and a bevy of strange bright-colored nudes, hatched and crosshatched in red, green, black. With these nudes he has been stubbornly experimenting in late years. They gave conservative Critic Royal Cortissoz "a positively painful sensation," but for Critic McBride they proved that "John Sloan has kept his youth." Doyle. In the eminently respectable Newton Galleries was exhibited a series or black & white pencil drawings and colored caricatures, signed for the most part H. B. To knowing London Victorians H. B. stood...
...always been an exciting talker. He dearly loves an argument. Striking strange postures, striding nervously back & forth, he will argue with anyone about anything. Reporters love him for it. For the first time, some of this vitality was apparent in his painting last week. Commented Critic Royal Cortissoz...
...quick brain, confined her satire at the Downtown Galleries last week largely to the critics and dealers of the New York art world. Shrewdly drawn pastels in good color showed Colyumist Heywood Broun towering like a huge bundle of dirty linen over a frail typewriter; Critic Royal Cortissoz (Herald Tribune) scowling over his goatee and cigar at a modernist painting; Murdock Pemberton (New Yorker) bilious in a blue suit; dimple-chinned Henry McBride (Sun) delicately balancing a teacup; and dozens more...