Word: diana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, scheduled for speedy demolition, artists, architects pondered on what could be done with Diana, Roman huntress by Saint-Gaudens, who, upon a Moorish tower by Stanford White, long adorned the summit of the famed hippodrome. After 56 conflicting proposals, it was last week decided to remove statue, tower, to New York University. Lawyer Elihu Root agreed to head a committee to raise funds for the transfer; architects McKim, Mead & White were appointed for the work...
...appearance of a distinguished looking man and find him to be a famous pianist. Over in a corner might be a man who had written a play. Cyril Maude, or an actor of his standing, might be observed chatting at another point. And there'd be Lady Diana Manners...
...exhibition of paintings has just been opened at the Fogg Art Museum. There are four unfinished paintings of Diana by Tintoretto, a fine Venetian portrait of a man, and two paintings by Nicholas Poussin, a Nativity and the Birth of Bacchus belonging to Samuel Sachs of New York. These pictures will remain on exhibition at the Museum throughout the summer...
...Diana (an enlargement of an early work, cast in colored terra-cotta) is swifter far than Acteon, for all his speed-outstripping dogs. The wind bends her scarf; her bow is drawn; she looks back...
...famed artist, paints pictures of the countryside. Last week, he exhibited a group of them in Manhattan. It is always afternoon in Montauk; there whisper trees more shadowy than any that ever stooped their boughs in Eden; gods live there and fairies, so says the brush of Mr. Hassam. Diana as Spring bursts arrowy-footed through the wood, paling with her whiteness the white dogwood blossom; in The Grove of Aphrodite nymphs move to pipes unseen, sentineled by poplars; Dryads dance upon a blowy hill against a far horizon. It is not strange, then, that one of Mr. Hassam...