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Among the standouts were three Alpine landscapes by Bruegel, who turned inches of paper into miles of thousands of mountainside by the application of thousands of tiny ink lines sensitively stitched and pyramided together. Claude Lorrain's Sermon on the Mount created a hilltop grove, shepherds and their flock, a wide and crowded harbor and a distant town, all with a little ink and broad watery washes. Peter Paul Rubens' delicately tinted watercolor of a farmyard was as tender and vivid as April grass. Thomas Gainsborough's charcoal sketches showed that he could read the face...
Born. To Comedian George Jessel, 43, and ex-Showgirl Lorrain Gourley ("Lois Andrew") Jessel, 17: a daughter, Jerilynn, 6 Ib. 12 oz.; in Hollywood...
...recent success of Andree Lorrain (Mademoiselle Paris) in captivating Harvard men has induced other foreign charmers to move in and exploit the fertile Crimson field...
Mademoiselle Paris, in private life Miss Andree Lorrain, stepped off the train into a barrage of cameras and the blare of Brown's swing band (which was almost wholly drowned out by the scream of steam escaping from the locomotive...
Turner's sea pieces were the wonder of such stay-at-home fellow Academicians as Benjamin West and Sir Thomas Lawrence, who began by comparing them with Claude Lorrain and ended by finding them incomparable. His Snowstorm, for which he prepared by having himself lashed to a mast for four hours during a Channel blizzard, was too much for almost everybody. One of the finest, in his own estimation, was The Fighting Téméraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838. This sunset picture of a black, belching little tug beside the spectral...