Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making forays inland to pick pictures. On his advice the Nelson fund directors have bought lavishly and well. Critics picking their way through echoing marble galleries last week spotted at least half a dozen paintings of world importance: Velasquez' St. Peter; Rubens' Portrait of Old Parr; El Greco's Penitent Magdalene; Goya's Don Ignacio Omulryan y Rourera; Titian's Antoine Perrenot de Granvella; Nicolas Poussin's Triumph of Bacchus...
...inspiring ruin. He wrote the first history of painting of the 19th Century, started an arts & crafts shop, founded a literary journal (Pan), made European collectors aware of Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne. He went to Spain to bend the knee to Velazquez, returned a blazing disciple of El Greco. Though he is a frequent contributor to International Studio and Cahier d'Art, few of his more than 40 books have been translated. Some of them: Spanish Journey, Pyramid and Temple, Degas, Cezanne, Dostoevsky...
...masterpiece. And Director Harshe headlined the show's "ten most significant" pictures: Hans Holbein's Portrait of Catherine Howard from Toledo's Museum of Art; Tiziano Vicellio's (Titian) Venus and the Lute Player from Manhattan's Duveen Bros.; Domenico Theotocopuli's (El Greco) The Assumption of the Virgin from Chicago's own Art Institute; Frans Hals's The Merry Lute Player from Mrs. John R. Thompson & John R. Thompson Jr. (Chicago); Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez' Isabella, First Queen of Philip IV of Spain from Philanthropist Max Epstein...
...summary: HARVARD 1936 ARLINGTON Dewey, (Duffey, Roberts, Mortimer), l.w. r.w., Norberg, (Greco, Collins) Monseley, (McDonnell, Emmous), c. c., Gardella, (Sullivan) Callaway, (Halloweil, Hovenanian), r.w. l.w., Mee, (Howser) Lane, (Perry, Clement), l.d. r.d., Bullock Claflin, (Cutler, do Rosset, Brown, Rawson), r.d. l.d., Lane, (Cannell...
...already been made. More to the point, the money was already in hand, a legacy from Stephen Salisbury III. Director Taylor concentrated on building up his museum's collection. On view last week were a portrait of Diane de Poitiers by 16th Century null Clouet; a fine El Greco; a pair of portraits by Britain's great William Hogarth; a gallery of U. S. primitive art from Worcester County; another containing excellent examples of George Inness, Winslow Homer, Albert Ryder, Ralph Blakelock. Specially borrowed for the opening was Josef Stransky's collection of modern French art-notably...