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...rococo age. Born in 1732, he studied under François Boucher. He was befriended by the American minister in Paris, Benjamin Franklin, and by Madame du Barry, who commissioned him to do the series called the Progress of Love that is now in Manhattan's Frick Collection. One of his best-known works shows a girl on a swing, her hems heavenward, being pushed while her lover looks...
Which record depends. Ever since Commissioner Ford Frick accepted both the home-run marks of Babe Ruth (60 in 154 games) and Roger Maris (61 in 162 games), statistics-crazed fans have been in a quandary. Nobody knows whose pace to follow. Result: the once-consuming pastime of charting the progress of the current slugger has declined. Now Killebrew may settle it once and for all by knocking both records out of the park. At the end of last week he was 7 games ahead of Ruth's pace, and within striking distance of Maris. Killebrew this year...
...FRICK COLLECTION-Fifth Ave. at 70th. William Blake, faithful to his own visions, could also be true to another's. In 28 watercolors illustrating Pilgrim's Progress, he yielded to the imagination of the writer, drew Bunyan's familiar figures more literally than was his wont, but also less lyrically. Also a drawing done for Milton's Paradise Regained. Through...
...FRICK COLLECTION-Fifth Ave. at 70th...
...after his death in 1939, a hit Broadway play, Lord Pengo, made fiction of his exploits. He bought and sold Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer three times, always handled, as his motto affirmed, "nothing but recognized masterpieces." His clients were equally well recognized -Mellon, Morgan, Frick, Rockefeller, Kress, Altman, Bache-and Duveen steered their taste in building superb, now mostly public collections...