Word: gainsboroughs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must expend more effort than is needed to understand the music. In the case of art it is easy to spend an afternoon in the Fogg Museum and become acquainted with a number of masterpieces, for instance, the prints by Durer, Holbein, or Rembrandt. The work of Gainsborough who painted the now famous "Blue Boy" can be seen in his protrait of Count Rumford, recently bequeathed to the University. Anyone who wishes to know the works of art of some of these great men can do so in a much shorter time than it is possible to become acquainted with...
...knowledge of art and taste progresses in the modern world. There are also works by later masters easier to understand, as the fine portrait by Van Dyck, the St. Jerome of Ribera, the so-called Rembrandt's Daughter by Turner, and the portrait of Count Rumford by Gainsborough. For those who are still more modern in their tastes there are oil and water colors by Winslow, Homer, Whistler, LaFarge, Dodge Macknight, and others...
...about art and buys for the name alone. Under modern methods of publicity, "finds" can be staged which will outdo Mark Twain's story of the success of Francois Millet. Even the sacro-sanct,--the critics,--are far from infallible. The world has not yet forgotten the suit over Gainsborough's "Sisters", which dragged on for weeks with critics of the first rank arguing on both sides before determining whether the picture was genuine, and worth thousands, or false and worth nothing. The much mooted question as to the ethics of fabulous prices in art, the value of pictures...
...Gainsborough's "Portrait of Count Rumford", bequeathed to the University by the will of Edmund Cagswell, Converse, has recently been hung in the Gallery of the Fogg Art Museum...
...portrait by Gainsborough shows Count Rumford in the uniform of the King's American Dragoons. The portrait was published by Mr. Maurice W. Brockwell in Art in America for December, 1917. Mr. Brockwell says: "The internal evidence of the painting shows it to be a late work by Gainsborough, and one of the great English artist's finest achievements in male portraiture. Although neither signed nor dated it a absolutely autograph. The technical characteristics of the picture, the appearance of this famous investigator of light and heat, and the biographical data which we possess of him show that...