Word: henry
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arrived in the U. S. with his wife and two daughters, Georges Henri Emile Daeschner, new French ambassador to the U S. (TIME, Oct. 27) in succession to M. Jules M. Jusserand, Dean of the Diplomatic Corps at Washington...
...Died. Henri Geeraert, 61, sluice-keeper who stopped the German advance on Calais in. 1914; in Bruges, Belgium, after a long illness. Geeraert kept the sluices of Nieuport. He knew that German armies were plunging across Belgium to the sea. He opened the locks. Into the flat country flowed the water; within 48 hours the ground was spongy, soon it was a marsh in which German soldiers struggled with plunging horses, foundering field-pieces. Gradually the water rose, until it became a lake two miles wide, barring off the Germans from Nieuport to Dixmude. The Belgian army, which had been...
...artist, at the height of his career, came Death last week. He died in Manhattan after an operation for acute appendicitis. To his bier flocked many celebrated painters, Art patrons, writers-Ignacio Zuloaga, Charles Dana Gibson, Frank Crowninshield, Joseph Hergesheimer, Guy Pepe Du Bois, Joseph Pennell, John Sloane, Robert Henri, Robert W. Chanler, Albert Sterner, Gari Melchers, A. Sterling Calder...
George Bellows never studied in Europe. He was born in Ohio, studied art in Manhattan under Robert Henri. That artist once said of him: "I can't teach this boy anything; he knows by instinct all that it has taken me years to learn...
...Pene Du Bois was represented with a full length portrait of a woman standing against a vast expanse of light blue background-a most interesting portrait. Robert Henri exhibited a number of quick, nervous impressions of Irish lads and colleens; John Sloan was twice hung-once in a merry-go-round, again in a group at a country fair; Boardman Robinson, returning to painting after many successful years of black and white, also sent two canvases...