Word: ferrazzi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thunder the Institute is able to stir up every year over the award of a first prize of $1,500, a second of $1,000, and a third of $500. But even if the amounts were not, perhaps, sumptuous, they were very gratefully received by Ferruccio Ferrazzi, K. X. Roussel, and Robert Spencer, an American...
Critics wondered whether the judges had not given Artist Spencer the prize because they thought an American ought to have such financial assistance. Nor would a jury of critics ever have given first place to Ferrazzi's "Horatia and Fabiola"; they would have chosen the obvious and imposing qualities of Mrs. Ernest Prostor's "The Back Bedroom." You can only see a corner of the bedroom. A girl with a primitive face and a fine supple body leans over the back of a chair. The skin has texture; the pose understanding; but over it all, the simplicity...