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Painter Carroll is, as it happens, mainly known as a painter of women-tilt-nosed madonnas who suggest fragile wisps of a moonlight reverie. Painted in foamy tones, with appealing childlike faces and flickering bodies trailing lingerie like the draperies of an El Greco saint, Carroll's women sell like hotcakes at $1,000 up. (An Italian laborer once slashed one from its frame and took it home to be "his woman.") His pictures are also collected by the soberest U.S. museums as examples of the finest contemporary U.S. art. They resemble (in an etherealized form) his pert...
...carefully chosen 2% of the museum's remaining 500,000 treasures have been trucked to the country hideaway. Gone are the Altman and most of the Morgan collections, the Van Eycks and other Flemish Primitives, Rubens' bulky Venus and Adonis, the museum's most famous El Greco, View of Toledo...
...experienced creative paralysis. He got nearly everything he went after in his life: fame, social standing, money. A faithful husband and a good father, he poured on to canvas what he took care to moderate in his living; his paintings, which lack the deep grandeur of Velasquez and El Greco, are perhaps the most vigorously fleshly ever hung...
...Morgan lent three Holbeins. The Metropolitan Museum sent down El Greco's View of Toledo and John Singer Sargent's portrait of Padre Sebastiano. Mrs. George Bellows lent her husband's famous picture of Edith Cavell. The Whitney Museum, the Phillips Memorial in Washington, the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, all removed priceless works from their walls to send to Knoedler's in Manhattan, because an art critic liked them...
Moral Vacuum. One advantage of a diary is its informal catching of passing moods, backgrounds, people. Sandwiched among the great disasters in this book are many casual entries about the European civilization which Shirer loved. They are revealing. There is the usual chitchat about El Greco's greens, The Decline of the West and The Magic Mountain, "a tremendous novel." There is a murmuring of the evocative names of storied cities. There is gnashing of teeth, impotent anger, weeping, physical illness at each new Nazi success...