Word: impressionist
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Died. Ambroise ("Fifi") Vollard, 72, famed, bearded, hulking French art dealer, who specialized in boosting the Impressionist painters (Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne); in an automobile crash near Versailles. Shrewd, bold in his judgments, when Cezanne died Vollard hastened to Aix, cornered the contents of the painter's studio, made a fortune...
...Boston Symphony, Sergei Koussevitzky conducting; Victor: 3 sides). At his best as a deft impressionist, U. S. Composer Copland here records sultry musical impressions of Mexico. Koussevitzky's Bostonians play them like summer lightning...
Debussy: Preludes, Book I (Walter Gieseking, pianist; Columbia: 14 sides). A sheaf of Impressionist Debussy's subtlest miniatures played by his best living interpreter...
...Just opened at Andover's starchy, Georgian, richly-endowed Addison Gallery of American Art was the first comprehensive exhibition in New England of paintings by the late Maurice Prendergast and his brother, Charles, now 70. The Prendergasts were Boston boys whom Boston never bothered to honor. But since Impressionist Maurice has been dead for 14 years with an international reputation, home-town honors seemed at least timely to Mr. Dooley and once again, he had observed sadly, "the show that Boston should have had is being held elsewhere." Initiator of the exhibition was urbane and eminent Critic Van Wyck...
...parlor, not the sunny tavern-and-haystack life which Duveneck and his pupils actually led. Artist Duveneck entered parlor society briefly in 1886 through his marriage to Elizabeth Boott, a refined Bostonian traveler straight out of Henry James. After her death in 1888 his painting became uncertain, yielded to impressionist influences, infrequently showed his old spontaneity...