Word: impressionist
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...Dunham, of the Museum's Egyptian Department, checked temperature and humidity (see cut) to see how Ankh-haef was getting along. The ancient Egyptian bust was part of one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of portraiture ever assembled. Ranging from such 4,550-year-old items to Post-Impressionist Van Gogh, the exhibition covered 45 centuries, included every medium from sculpture to daguerreotypes, every school of portrait painting from Chinese to contemporary U. S. The Boston Museum didn't have to borrow an item for its big show, merely dug into its storerooms...
...Bartók, Fiddler Szigeti says of jazz: "It has raised the standards of efficiency in playing music. It is much easier to get away with a slovenly performance of Poet and Peasant than with a well-written jazz piece. Jazz brought to popular music what the impressionist brought to painting -more colors and more care in using them. I think jazz has sharpened the receptivity of the listener...
Died. Sir John Lavery, 84, Irish portraitist of the impressionist period; in Kilmoganny, County Kilkenny, Eire. He painted Queen Victoria in 1888, Shirley Temple in 1936, and between times did more U. S. millionaires than any other artist in history. Deeply devoted to the late, Chicago-born Lady Lavery, one of the beauties of her time, Sir John used her as model for the colleen on Eire's banknotes, hung a new portrait of her at the Royal Academy nearly every year. Observed he in his autobiography: "I doubt if there are a more heartless crew than poets, painters...
...American but post-Impressionist French were the canvases of agile, sensitive James Chapin up to 1924. Cézanne was his idol. That year he left Greenwich Village, took a walking trip in the hills of northern New Jersey. There he found a two-room log cabin, decided it would be a quiet place to paint. He rented it for $4 a month from the Marvins, a tightfisted, hard-working farm family...
Debussy: La Mer (Boston Symphony, Sergei Koussevitzky conducting; Victor: six sides). Record of the month. Koussevitzky's Bostonians make every salty splash of Impressionist Debussy's great seascape glisten in hazy sunshine. Magnificently recorded...