Word: flemish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wood once remarked that "all the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow," yet his best idea occured on a trip to Europe in 1928. It was simply to apply the smooth, meticulous style of the German and Flemish primitives to the American scene. Result: quick and spectacular success. Wood's American Gothic -a head-on portrayal of a sour, bald farmer with a pitchfork and his tight-lipped wife -became an icon for Paint America Firsters...
Believing that 16th century Dutch architecture would blend well with the Gold Coast surroundings, Wheelwright hoped to design a Flemish castle in miniature. Once the plans were approved, he sailed to Holland, and traveling through the canals by tugboat, spent two years gathering the antiques and curios that were later to adorn the walls of 44 Bow Street. The building was at last completed at a cost of only...
...four of the Metropolitan Museum's sumptuously renovated picture galleries, an impressive selection from the huge Lehman collection of Italian, Dutch, Flemish, German, Spanish and French paintings and Renaissance furniture was grandly laid out. Now the property of Robert Lehman (investment banking), the collection was started by his father, the late Financier Philip Lehman in 1911, is resplendent with Italian primitives and notable examples of the work of Memling, Holbein. El Greco, Rembrandt, Goya, and latter-day Frenchmen like Cézanne and Renoir. One of the show's standouts: Botticelli's tiny, delicate Annunciation, which Robert...
...days, more than 25.000 visitors trooped (admission: free) into the refurbished picture galleries on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue to enjoy one of the world's greatest collections of European paintings. The richness and the variety of the collection of 700 paintings, ranging from medieval Italian and Flemish primitives to Picasso and Matisse, brought a common reaction: "Why I never knew that...
...Fredericksburg, people started to file into the exhibit 20 at a time (admission free). Over the truck's P.A. system came 17th century harpsichord music to set the mood for the show, followed by a recorded lecture. On exhibit were sixteen 15th to 17th century Dutch and Flemish paintings, including such masterpieces as Hieronymous Bosch's Temptation of St. Anthony, Aelbert Cuyp's Horsemen Halting on a Road, Pieter Bruegel's The Carnival. Next week the artmobile will take off on a statewide tour (possibly three years) with stops planned so that no Virginian will have...