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...Tilton and Alfred Morton Githens. Besides its 14 exhibition galleries, its classrooms and offices, the museum boasts a fully equipped stage. On view in its permanent collection last week was a small but extremely well chosen group of those 18th Century portraitists that tycoons loved to collect before Depression: Gainsborough. Lawrence, Raeburn, Reynolds, Romney and Benjamin West, besides Canaletto, Guardi and Goya...
...England's three-year-old champion, Lord Derby's Derby-winner Hyperion, win the St. Leger Stakes by three lengths, with the Aga Khan's Felicitation second. It was the 26th time a Derby winner had won the St. Leger. Hyperion's sire, Gainsborough...
...school, no one paints his environment. All go as far away as possible from Dannemora's stone walls. Teacher Curtis paints pictures that look like calendars in village postoffices: an Indian, a landscape, a glossily highlighted Flemish Fisher. His star pupil, Convict R. Rehm, has faithfully copied Gainsborough's Blue Boy and painted an original picture of rearing, free Wild Horses from his own dreams. Even the wild horses shine with idealism. Another pupil, Convict H. Nelson, produces pictures like railroad travel posters advertising any place but Dannemora...
...pencils rose actively, and from his pulpit Auctioneer Otto Bernet bounced prices up $1,000 at a time. For Sir Thomas Lawrence's huge canvas of Mrs. Raikes and Daughter, an agent paid the top price of the sale, $17,100. A Van Dyck, a Raeburn, a Gainsborough, a Romney each fetched more than $10,000. All told, 74 canvases brought $286,100 in cash. To the uninitiated it sounded as if Depression were over...
British painting the greatest since Gainsborough. At least twice, apparently authentic stories of Sir Joseph's approaching peerage were printed in British and U. S. newspapers. Sir Joseph in 1931 purchased an estate in Kent (first house he ever owned) in order to play the part better and he is supposed to have postponed his daughter's wedding so that he might give her away as Lord Duveen. But something always happened. Theories for the delay were found in the fact that Sir Joseph has been sued three times for $500,000 for disparaging the paintings of other...