Word: impressionists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French government, having heard that the Impressionist Manet's famous painting, Le Bon Bock, was in Paris en route to America, planned to put an embargo on it, but found the law did not apply-since the painting was acquired in Germany. It represents with sympathetic warmth a gentleman, a cafe table, a glass of beer. It will be exhibited shortly in New York...
Every aesthetic possibility of these seeming-fragile structures, these English cathedrals, Mr. Conant has realized and rendered with short, firm staccato pencil strokes. All the training of the professional architect is behind him, and that implies a solidity of handling unknown to the disintegrated impressionist schools. (Nothing could be more different, for instance, than three etchings of Venetian Palazzi by Whistler, which hang on one of the other walls of the room.) One notes too a technical advance over the Spanish drawings, a greater range of values, in particular a greater use of black...