Word: forain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...account of myself as the "stolid Philadelphian" in "U. S. Illustrators" . . . was acceptable enough especially when I found my name associated with Daumier and with Forain...
...experts as Joseph Herge-sheimer and Donn Byrne got half its atmosphere from Gruger's oldfashioned, deep-browed men and frail but credible ladies. Though limited in range, Gruger's draftsmanship and handling of dark and light masses could be compared with the French Masters Daumier and Forain. He never used a model. The kind of cheap cardboard on which he drew with carbon pencil and lamp black is now known as Gruger board...
...governing board chairman of Chase National Bank, sailed for Europe last week to tackle once again the prickly problem of Germany's short term loans. Before leaving he gave an out-of-the-ordinary going-away party: a private view before the public exhibition of his collection of Forain paintings, etchings and lithographs. John Pierpont Morgan attended. So did John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Adolph Ochs, Ogden Reid, Owen D. Young, Nicholas Murray Butler, Paul Cravath, Arthur Curtiss James, Arthur Brisbane, Lily Pons. There...
...golf and poker make him friends and keep them. Although his interest in etchings has long been known, few persons realized until last week what an important print collector Mr. Wiggin is. On view were 271 different works illustrating practically the entire career of the late great Jean-Louis Forain who, starting out as a bitter satirist of middle class life, at his death in 1931 was known as one of the greatest religious draughtsmen since Rembrandt. Mr. Wiggin's Forain collection is unmatched in the U. S., has only three peers in Europe: the Dresden Museum, the Bibliotheque...
Jean-Louis Forain is by no means the only artist Mr. Wiggin collects. He boasts the most-complete-in-the-world collections of three famed Scotch etchers: James McBey, Muirhead Bone, Sir David Young Cameron. Among his hundreds of miscellaneous prints is the famed "Hundred Guilder Print" of Rembrandt's "Christ Healing the Sick...