Word: easels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theatre Guild, is his wide-eyed partner in supertemporal romance. These two extract fine philosophical nuance as well as fantasy from their curious roles. All three acts are laid in a Queen Anne drawing room, magnificently rendered by Sir Edwin Lutyens, famed British architect (TIME, Aug. 12), containing an easel originally owned by Sir Joshua Reynolds...
...artist, a poster artist, an upholsterer, a vendor of ladies' wear and a man without occupation. Chief counsel for Mrs. Hahn was large, ironic S. Lawrence Miller. His opponent was excitable Lawyer George W. Whiteside. The room was littered with books on esthetics, histories of art. On an easel stood the Lar-doux painting...
...designing strangers, Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen, had not reckoned on the many patriotic Dutchmen, particularly the cosmopolite Deterding. He sped over from London. When the bidding began the potency of Dutch oil, of Dutch nurture, became plain. The Letter by Gerard Terboch stood on the easel, a slight canvas in which a pretty maiden is seen writing a billet-doux. There was a fusillade of bidding. Sir Henri pounced on the foreigners, kept raising the bid "dix mille guilders" at a leap. He triumphed at $127,600. It all happened again with Jacob Ochtervelt's The Oyster Eaters. For this...
...attempt to set foot upon the odious road of comparisons, the greatest of the group which put a new literature before the world: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev. Tolstoy and Turgenev painted upon what might be called a variation of the Western canvas, with new colors; Dostoevsky created a new easel and a new technique. It is the difference between a Raphael and a Rembrant...
...migrated naturally to England, tilting his easel outside a Cotswold cottage wherein Henry James and Edmund Gos.se were busy writing. He painted Stevenson pacing thoughtfully in velveteen jacket. He took Whistler's egg-colored studio in Tite Street, London, and deprecated with amused humility a chorus of praise that arose, swelled and continued without interruption during his life...