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...tongue?" With her hands folded over her stomach, she moved last week through the four galleries of the U. S. building, gravely inspected one room full of the tenuous, romantic nudes of the late great Arthur B. Davies, stood silent in front of George Wesley Bellows' famed Dempsey-Firpo Fight. Finally she entered a gallery of Amerindian primitive art chosen by John Sloan. There she listened attentively while fluttering Mrs. Garrett delivered a lecture on the differences between the Hopis of Arizona and the Zunis of New Mexico, the relative merits of such artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hopis & Zunis in Venice | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...collection: Andover's Addison Gallery of American Art, now installed in its new Georgian building. In the nine sky-lit gallery rooms are some 100 U. S. paintings valued at $1,500,000. Among them: three Winslow Homers, George Wesley Bellows' Anne in Purple Wrap and Dempsey-Firpo Fight (lithograph). James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Battersea Bridge, works of Abbott Thayer, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Arthur B. Davies, Julian Alden Weir, John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Frank Weston Benson, and many another modern; Early American works by Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull, Benjamin West. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Art at Andover | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...Firpo Jacko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Arkansas Man | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...Boston, Dr. Daniel Davenport was prevented from lecturing on Africans with a cinema called Jan go, in which appeared a cannibal called Maluba, because Maluba informed police that his real name was Firpo Jacko, that he was a janitor in a Harlem apartment house, that Dr. Davenport owed him $990 back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Arkansas Man | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...wonder Firpo Greene postponed the taking of the Yale Football picture for six weeks after the game in the event of the non-return of the old fence. Without some sort of support it would certainly be at least six weeks before the team could stand up for a picture after the results of this afternoon's contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Men Will Feel More at Home in Rounded Stadium--Bottle Royal is Promised for Today | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

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