Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every day for six months, visitors to the Corcoran Gallery in Washington had asked to see "the Joan of Arc pictures", and had been disappointed. The room in which Maurice Boutet de Monvel's six great paintings hung was closed for repairs. By the time it reopened this week, gallery officials were convinced that the paintings, donated by the late Senator William A. Clark of Montana, were among the most popular in its collection...
...first painted Joan's story in a picture book designed to make better patriots of French youngsters. "Open this book, my dear children," he wrote in 1896, "with piety, in memory of the humble peasant girl who is the patron saint of France . . . Her story will tell you that in order to conquer, you must believe you will conquer. Remember this on the day when your country will have need of all your courage." In 1911, he finished the six Joan paintings...
...piled high with authentic costumes for the children and servants to sweat in, while he painted them (he never even sketched without models). Later, all this was to be a boon to Hollywood. When Producer Walter Wanger and Director Victor Fleming were making plans for Ingrid Bergman's Joan of Arc, they found tips for both costumes and settings in Boutet de Monvel...
...Joan Braverman '50 of 36 Follen st. and Lowell: major--English Literature; treasurer, Student Government; chairman, joint exams committee; yearbook literary staff...
...Joan of Arc. Ingrid Bergman in a costly historical pageant (TIME...