Word: daumiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittsburgh where his father's house was hung with murky landscapes of the Hudson River School in massive, gilded frames. Small Phillips decided he disliked pictures. After college he traveled widely in search, he says, of something to interest him. Paintings did it. His first enthusiasm was Honore Daumier (1808-79) French caricaturist and painter; afterward there were others: the French Impressionists, French and American moderns. But his first interest never waned; today Mr. Phillips has the best Daumier collection in the world. In 1918 he had enough pictures to open the Phillips Memorial Gallery in his home...
...volumes of "La Caricature" contain many lithographs by Daumier, including some of his most famous, as "Mr. Prune" and "Mr. Guiz", as well as the work by his contemporaries. There is also a useful addition in a complete set of Turner's "Liber Studiorum...
Among the recent additions to the paintings of the Museum, are four Italian paintings presented by M. Durand-Ruel, including a late Venetian "Adoration of the Magi." A new Daumier drawing entitled "The Butcher", acquired by the Museum through the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund, is considered one of Daumier's finest works...
Hours passed. Brutal Forain caricatures from the pages of Figaro, Le Eire haunted the worried Saint-Gaudens. The irony of Daumier was nothing to that of his disciple, Forain, who became only more venomous with age. (He is now 73.) Came, at last, the reply: "I permit no one to touch my painting. Forain alone can repair that which has been damaged. Return the painting to me at once by first steamer...
...minor or insignificant. Would a green uniform help to forward the art of political and social commentary (as expressed in drawn, rather than spoken lines) in this country? We have innumerable competent political artists (Darling, Rollin Kirby, McCutcheon) a few with streaks of genius, none of the stature of Daumier or even of some of the lesser men abroad. If a green uniform would help, let some benefactor import...