Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been found by a Belgian search pilot, shipped down the Congo River to French Equatorial Africa's capital, Brazzaville, thence by rail to the seacoast, thence by sea to France. No. 1 of these seven corpses was the body of French Equatorial Africa's new Governor General Edouard Renard. Last year he indignantly resigned a snug Parisian job as president of the Paris Municipal Council when his good friend Jean Chiappe was forced to quit as Chief of the Paris Police. Soaring with him over the steaming, noisome jungle went his swank second wife, Dutch relict...
...rise. Yet in the ingenuous 1870's his name meant much in the art world. Wounded in the Civil War, he went to Paris to recuperate and study art, spending most of his life thereafter in Europe. A pupil of the painstaking Jean Leon Gerome, Alexandre Cabanel and Edouard Frere, he became one of the most persistent of salon exhibitors. Between 1868 and 1895 Henry Bacon's name appears 25 times on the Beaux Arts lists, his canvases always being hung "on the line." Two of his pictures which became best sellers as steel engravings: The Boston Boys...
...painting have taken notes on a little group known as "The Eight." Of these young painters, mostly from Philadelphia, four were originally newspaper illustrators, who fought to fame against the stilted classicism of academic painting in the early 1900's. Their particular and private gods were Edouard Manet, Velasquez and Goya. Referred to as "The Ashcan School" by outraged critics, "The Eight" were: Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William J. Glackens, Arthur B. Davies, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast and Everett Shinn. They were men of vivid personality and all lived to attain considerable success of one sort...
...Greco's St. Ildefonso, Writing was owned years ago, before modernist painters had made the great Spanish mystic their particular hero and driven his prices sky high, by Artists Jean François Millet and Edouard...
...Chamber, paunchy, pipe-sucking Radical Socialist Leader Edouard Herriot elaborately explained to whoever would listen that he had been faithless to M. Doumergue and encompassed his Cabinet's fall (TIME, Nov. 19) because he thought the beloved ex-President intended to set up some kind of Dictatorship...