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...born in the Isle de la Reunion southeast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, went to Paris over half a century ago to study law. He was an indifferent lawyer, but his eye for art was alert; he recognized the ability and the future value of the French Impressionists - Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir - at a time when only one other man in France, the late Art Dealer George Durand-Ruel, was willing to take a chance on them. Ambroise Vollard bought his first pic ture, a Degas racing scene, for a few francs. Soon he made friends with the artist...
...exhibition of the art of Dodge MacKnight as displayed in his water colors that has been showing in the Fogg Art Museum for the part month will close Saturday. Three pictures from Southern France and Spain show him experimenting in the Impressionist manner, using strong color broken up into spots of different tones to give effects of full sunlight...
...England scenes he drops the Impressionist method, but holds to its spirit, always painting light and color in the open air. For his winter pictures he has devised a tiny movable shack so that he can work in the snow fields in the coldest weather...
...difficult to see why this series, the modern counterpart of the great religious frescoes of the Renaissance, has caused such an upheaval in the Impressionist schools. The realm of art was as much disturbed by the trial of the fishmonger and the poor shoemaker as the political situation of the decade...
Composition led Violinist Loeffler to relinquish the routine of orchestra work 28 years ago. His lovely finespun Mort de Tintagiles had already started critics questioning whether, with such meticulous regard for line, he could rightly be classified with Impressionist Debussy. The sensuous Pagan Poem came soon after, inspired by the sorcerous incantations Virgil put in the mouth of a Thessalian girl to draw her truant lover home...