Word: eilshemius
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...telegraph. One, at the Public Library of the amazing wood engravings of Timothy Cole, famed craftsman of the '90s, recalled the days-before-photo-engraving.* Critics left them unvisited until they had paid their respects to the first showing in years of the painting of the Mahatma Eilshemius...
...Manhattan art dealers know a little old gentleman with baggy trousers, a beard and a beady eye who is the city's most persistent exhibition visitor. All of them know that he is Louis Michel Eilshemius M. A., by his own admission painter, poet, musician, inventor, marksman, and "Ex Fancy Amateur Dancer." He loves to buttonhole strangers in hallways and describe his own superior accomplishments. He was once wealthy. He is still listed in the Social Register, lives in a brownstone house on East 57th Street and has spent a fortune on strange pamphlets and books to prove that...
...Mahatma Eilshemius is by no means a charlatan. He has been called the American Rousseau. His childish, sentimental painting has been described as "the type of thing . . . which would result were the rank and file of Americans capable of expressing themselves on canvas." He has been praised by Henri Matisse and dozens of others. His most important pictures have been bought by the three most astute collections of modern U. S. paintings: Whitney Museum, Phillips Memorial Gallery (Washington), Mr. & Mrs. Chester Dale...
...exhibit, which lasts four weeks, includes works by John Carroll, Louis Eilshemius Howard Gibbs, Morris Kantor, Benjamin Kopman, Reginald Marsh, Henry Lee MacFee, Elliot Orr, and Mark Tobey. None of the works of these artists have been displayed before by the society...