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Fred Papsdorf's painting is as unpretentious as his prose. He showed 27 canvases plainly close to his heart: My Father's Writing Table, Abie's Old Home, Weeds, Hills of Ohio. There were five gay, floral still lifes, four careful scenes of farm life, a depressing...
Few "Moderns." Inside, the Hall of Art is as self-consciously informal as a summer-art-colony show. Overflow canvases are stacked on the floor against the walls. Most of them are picturesque landscapes, seascapes, cottage scenes; still lifes of the flowers-and-carafe school, and a scattering of nudes...
As an exhibition of great art, the show was worth many times the price of admission (50?). On the somber, dignified Duveen walls were spread 15 Rembrandts, 15 of the finest of Frans Hals's broad-brushed portraits, Vermeer Van Delft's world-famed $500,000 The Milkmaid...
In the Pushman studio on Manhattan's 57th Street, shrouded in a velvety dimness, are all the beautiful things which Artist Pushman loves and exquisitely paints. For 20 years they have been appearing in his still lifes: tiny porcelain vases, lustrous Aegean flasks, Tibetan figurines, pieces of splendid brocade...
At length in 1902, Rilke got a light subsistence job as Auguste Rodin's secretary. Rodin hardly more than noticed him, but from Rodin Rilke learned the gospel of hard labor. Paris, too, exerted an essentially masculine influence, stony, harsh, forcing Rilke to a contemplation of that reality he...