Word: gainsboroughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Painting in Britain, 1530-1790, by the University of Birmingham's E. K. Waterhouse, begins with the age of Holbein and Henry VIII, moves on through Van Dyck and Hogarth to Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough and the 18th century classicists. Backing up the text are 192 pages of black & white reproductions...
...Sermon on the Mount created a hilltop grove, shepherds and their flock, a wide and crowded harbor and a distant town, all with a little ink and broad watery washes. Peter Paul Rubens' delicately tinted watercolor of a farmyard was as tender and vivid as April grass. Thomas Gainsborough's charcoal sketches showed that he could read the face of a field as surely as a human expression...
...Blue Boy, Thomas Gainsborough's most famed work, is the favorite at the Huntington Library and Art Gallery near Pasadena. It is a standout in the splendid $50 million collection put together between 1908 and 1927 by Railroad Heir Henry E. Huntington...
Anne Ford, also by Gainsborough, is the Cincinnati Art Museum favorite. The model later married one of Gainsborough's patrons, Sir Philip Thicknesse, who admired the painter for finishing "with his own hands every part of the drapery," instead of following the 18th century custom of letting an assistant do the costume...
...friend of Gordon Allport '19, in recent months Hall has given lectures in Allport's courses, spoken to the Liberal Union, Boston University, Brandeis, and many other colleges and organizations. His small Gainsborough St, Boston office-apartment is so filled with files on nation-wide racist activity that he is running out of space. He has complete data, including pictures and tape recordings, on the activities of such men as Merwyn K. Hart (whose National Economic Council pays $40,000 a year rent in the Empire State Building); Father Feeney of the St. Benedict's Center; Bill Buckley of Yale...