Word: henry
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day he listened, from 9:30 a.m. till 7 p.m., while Senator after Senator rose to the attack. The strongest assault on his position was made oy Senator Henri de Jouvenal, proprietor of the Matin, who pointed out that the British economies had not required decrees for their accomplishment. Finally at 7 o'clock, facing a talked-out and hungry Senate, he rose and announced his intention of delivering a two-hour speech. He offered his hearers the choice of submitting to it then, or of waiting until after dinner. The Senate chose to dine, and returned...
...particularly struck by George Bellow's large canvas of two pugilists, a black and a white, in a particularly intense moment of action. There is Robert Henri's sombre portrait of Miss Battalo Rubino. There are also works by John Sloan, President of the Society, Arthur Lee, winner of the Pennsylvania Academy gold medal, Al Frueh, cartoonist of The New York World, William Glackens, Allen Tucker, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. These represent the established artists who set the character of the show...
...exhibitions of Aristide Maillol at the Whitney Studio Club and of Henri Matisse at the Brummer Gallery, both in Manhattan, show similar theories of art expressed respectively in sculpture and painting. While Sculptor Maillol is little known to Americans, artist Matisse's crude nudes and restless still-lifes have long been flaunted before a sceptical public...
...have spent years in developing the ultimate perfection of their art. a protective organization which keeps Gwendolyn de vere from being stranded in some Northwestern mining camp excuses itself, but when it might undertake to prevent a public appearance of an artist of the stamp of Sarah Bernhardt or Henri Coquelin because of some minor infringement of its rules, it reaches the height of the ridiculous...
Hundreds of concerts have marked the centenary in the U. S. Two major series have been given in Minneapolis under Henri Verbrugghen and in New York under Walter Damroseh...