Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parlors of U. S. Respectability. With the colored lithographs of Currier & Ives and wax flowers under glass bells, they marked the sunrise of artistic appreciation in the country. The Rogers Group had a ritual position in the U. S. home as un varying as the ikon opposite the door of pre-War Russia. It stood in the bay win dow, between the Nottingham lace curtains, where it could be seen from the street. Most of the 87 groups were modeled by Sculptor Rogers with this in mind, that they might be equally effective from all sides. Subjects were catholic...
...fair. In New York he showed his next piece, an Abolitionist number entitled "The Slave Auction." No dealer would handle it because of the amount of Southern sentiment in the city, so Yankee Rogers found a colored boy with a wagon and hawked copies of his piece from door to door at $10 the copy. He did a land office business. From then on he never sold through dealers or art galleries. The Rogers Group man was the Fuller Brush man's grandfather...
...other concerts in the series will be held on January 19, February 16, March 16, and April 20. Tickets may be obtained at the Longy School of Music, 44 Church Street or at the door...
Elsewhere in this column is reprinted a letter from Dean Hanford, explaining the stand which the Student Council and the administration have taken with regard to subway rioting. The threat of punitive measures in this instance is unfortunately reminiscent of that shiny strap behind the bathroom door, but there are apparently still those who have yet to outgrow the urge to carve their initials on the furniture...
...year-old Gari Melchers. On the 50th anniversary of his first exhibited painting, "The Letter," shown in the Paris Salon of 1882, they held a dinner, presented him with a gold medal and turned over their gallery to a memorial exhibition of his work. Last week they draped the door in black and tacked gold palm leaves to the frame of his self-portrait. Gari Melchers had died suddenly at his Virginia country place, of heart failure...