Word: gothick
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this week, two museums were showing the work of an odd painter named William James Hubard, who died there in 1862. Hubard had painted gloomy but perfectly proper portraits of Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and Richmond belles for a living; evenings he turned his hand to what he called "Gothick" fantasies. A few, like his Silent Violinist (see cut), were weird enough to recall his melancholy contemporary, Edgar Allan...
Dean Joseph Hudnut, of Harvard's Graduate School of Design, has a seeing eye for architectural pretense. He has paid his respects to the campuses of the large Eastern colleges in a little pamphlet called The Gothick Universitie; he has likened Washington's unfinished Jefferson Memorial to "an egg on a pantry shelf in the midst of a geometric Sahara." Last week Dean Hudnut took a look at the National Gallery. Wrote he (in an article in the Magazine...
| 1 |