Word: easels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finished the picture in his workroom at Woodsome Lodge. Professor and Mrs. Osborn drove through a violent storm to see it. Sargent met them and then disappeared behind a partition, returning with an easel made of lima bean poles. "Turn round and hide your eyes," Sargent said; Professor and Mrs. Osborn obeyed...
Unknown to the guards, this Professor himself has but lately been informed by perfection. He has married the littlest, tenderest of sprites who ever sat long hours at an easel before "the souls of old painters who saw God and proclaimed him in terms of Immortal Beauty." The many-crowned Professor has become young, eager, full of pretty and silly courtesies. The stool for her feet, the bunch of far-brought snow-drops Like the lover of Hans Andersen's princess he will not have Perella inconvenienced by the dried pea beneath the seventh mattress. And she adores...