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...Last of the Wood Engravers" is the third of the recent Foundation films. It was produced to preserve and make available for posterity the extraordinary technique of Timothy Cole, last of the great wood engravers. His subject in this presentation is the EI Greco masterpiece, "Fray Feliz Hortensio", in the Boston Museum. The fourth of the productions of the Film Foundation is entitled "The Silversmith", an illustration of the technique of the art of the silversmith. It was produced through the cooperation of A. J. Stone, an outstanding worker in silver in this country...
...scare of "fake" was thrown into the art world a few days ago when the Boston newspapers revealed that the Boston Museum of Fine Arts had been fleeced of nearly $100,000 for spurious paintings among which was a highly prized canvas supposed to have been by El Greco. As responsibility for acceptance to the Fogg Museum rests with a large jury rather than with a single man, the possibilities of such accident are reduced to a minimum...
...will be delivered on Thursdays commencing February 5--with the topic "Adam Eisheimer and Northern Artists in Rome." On February 12 Mr. Hind will talk on "Rubens and VanDyck in their relations to Italy;" on February 19, "Poussin and Claude;" February 26, "Claude's Drawings;" March 5, "El Greco and Modern Art;" and on March 12 as a finale, "Italy the School of the World...
...novel, Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, was printed at his own expense, under a pseudonym; it fell flat. His second, The Red Badge of Courage, brought him jobs as war correspondent although until then he had never seen a battle. He served in a Cuban filibustering expedition, the Greco-Turkish War; Spanish-American War. The last few years of his life he lived in England, was a great & good friend of the late great Joseph Korzeniowski (Conrad). No less a pundit than Herbert George Wells has said that Crane's The Open Boat is "the finest short story...
There is no prize exhibit in the Havemeyer collection. Outstanding are El Greco's portrait of the Grand Inquisitor Cardinal Fernando Nino de Guevara, a crafty-eyed prelate in thick horn-rimmed spectacles, painted over 300 years ago, just before Inquisitor Fernando burned alive half a hundred heretics in the Toledo market place; Manet's portrait of the redhaired, raffish George Moore; the superb example of Rembrandt's engraving: "Christ Healing the Sick...