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...back rooms at London's Tate gallery are sometimes ignored by art lovers, but those who took the trouble to visit one of them last week found the trip well worth the effort. On display there was the work of Gwen John, elder sister of famed Painter Augustus John, and an artist almost unknown before her death in 1939. Even six years ago, when a memorial show of her work was held in London, the critical reaction was guarded. This time the critics took a second look. Wrote John Russell in the Sunday Times: "The judgment of history . . . will...
...Gwen John never heard such public praise in her lifetime. She lived much of it in painful seclusion in France, rarely showing her work, caring little for outside opinion. Her subjects were simple ones: a woman holding a cat, an empty room, a vase of flowers. Her pale colors and still figures gave the pictures a quiet, reticent look. But there was nothing vague or misty about them. All had been drawn with a strong, accurate hand...
Betty Bagby '52; Marie Beaupre; Marie Boissevain '53; Lorna Briggs '55; Gwen Brigham '53; Ginny Dahr '55; Rusty Flinton '55; Fay Frenning '55; Pricilla High '53; April Hodges '55; Danny Holmgren '55; Gabrielle Iglesias '55; Rachel Mellinger '52; Daphne Merriam '52; Fay Pratt '52; Judy Raff '55; Margot Ravage '55; Sandi Rosman '55; Janet Titus '55; Teddy Train...
...outbreak of World War I he joined the Naval Division, and thinking that he would probably get killed, married Gwen Quilter. This, he reasoned, gave him as much happiness as he deserved, and her a reasonable chance of escape. And he very nearly did get killed in Gallipoli by the worst of deaths, dysentery. He recorded this campaign in his lightest verse, laffing at his miseries and terrors...
...GWEN BRIGHAM: Moors; secretary, head of swimming, A.A.; fire captain, vice-president-librarian, Moors; Song Contest; publicity chairman, "Drumbeats and Song...