Word: gainsboroughs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Part of the $3,000,000 collection of the late Senator William A. Clark of Montana was willed to the Metropolitan Museum, or, as an alternate, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. Part, including Rubens' "Magdalene," Gainsborough's "Covered Wagon," Rembrandt's "Woman with a Fan," was left to his heirs. Last week the legatees announced that they would sell their share at auction in January in Manhattan...
...strength and treasure? A steam of tears rose from a dozen editorial pages. With the lamentable psychology of one who does not count his chickens until they have been run over, the press pointed out that Leverhulme's collection included two paintings by Rembrandt, several by Frans Hals, Gainsborough's portrait of Squire Nuttall, Reynolds' "Countess of Thanet" and "Venus," Sir Martin Shee's "Boys of the Annesley Family," not to mention numerous Turners, Raeburns, Romneys, Lawrences...
...American rate of bidding. The Wright plane may form the nucleus of a collection of commercial masterpieces, and if the National Museum of Engineering, through its secretary, urges that it is distinctively American, and hence should remain here, the English can reply that then the products of Reynolds and Gainsborough do not belong in America...
...They exhibited together in Germany; a German critic bracketed them in the phrase "The Blue Four. *By Gainsborough (TIME, Jan. 26). †By Rembrandt...
...grey; from her right arm depends a gauzy scarf. Walpole wrote of her: "She effaces all without being a beauty, but her youthful figure, lively modesty and modest familiarity make her a prodigy." The portrait was painted at the time of her wedding. Seven years later, she sat to Gainsborough, and his portrait of her shows a woman whose face had taken on a pensive cast and her body a buxom rotundity-not quite so buxom, on the tactful canvas, as her contemporaries are known to have found...