Word: marsden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years at the University of California School of Jurisprudence, Professor Alexander Marsden Kidd has had no trouble living up to his obvious nickname. In all the university's vast (3,250 members) faculty, no teacher is so fierce in pursuit of his prize (knowledge) or so furious in the treatment of his enemy (the lazy student) as the law school's "Captain Kidd...
...opened his own with the help of his growing circle of admirers. Along with photographers, he introduced most of the pioneers of modern art to the U.S. Among them were Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec. Rodin, Picasso and Matisse. He fought for home talent too; Max Weber, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Charles Demuth and Georgia O'Keeffe (whom he later married) all rose to fame through him. But Stieglitz always insisted he was no dealer. He never sold a painting unless he was sure the buyer appreciated it, and refused to take a commission. Stieglitz...
...Providence art museum's Director Gordon Washburn had asked colleagues in 17 eastern museums to send their favorite contemporary U.S. paintings to an exhibition entitled "Museums' Choice." Last week the results were on view. Artists best liked by the museum directors: the late great Marsden Hartley, Maine modern whose rough-cut, bright-colored canvases were scorned by museums 20 years ago; Japanese-American Yasuo Kuniyoshi, whose slick, complex workmanship is especially admired by fellow artists...
...Marsden Hartley's garish Three Friends, which showed Christ flanked by a hairy prize fighter and a clown. (Hartley, in a poem he wrote about it, says that the athlete and the clown had suffered almost as much as Christ...
...19th-and 20th-century U.S. pictures, the collection included : Winslow Homer's Sunflower Pickaninny, Sargent's portrait of Joe Jefferson as Rip van Winkle, Whistler's Red Rosalie of Lyme Regis, George Luks's Plaza Cabbie, George Bellows' Sea Spume, canvases by John Sloane, Marsden Hartley, John Marin...