Word: millet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back to Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. Last week a Thompson went back to 118 one-armed lunchrooms, but the process was some-what different. In 1927 John R. Thompson, self-made founder of the restaurant chain died leaving to his estate a lot of old masters (Hals, Raeburn, Corot, Diaz, Millet, Rousseau, Bellini) that had cost him some $750,000. To his company he left his Yale-educated Son (Class of 1918). John R. Jr. had been put through the business from the lunch counter up. Homely and negligent in dress, he was regarded by his father's good friends...
Such outstanding painters as Charles Burchfield. Preston Dickinson, Edward Hopper, and John Marin are represented in the display of water colors in gallery 9, while in gallery 14 are a group of oils by such French painters as Dapra Millet, and de la Pena. The majority of these were given to the Museum, and one by Ralph Isham '88, the donor the organ in the Memorial Church. The Japanese prints are hung in gallery 15 and, in gallery 16 are a group of Chinese bronzes, pottery, woods, and other objects jets...
...Commerce had waived its regulation against throwing things from airplanes in flight. Paterson's Wright Aeronautical Corp. had lent a plane and crack pilot. Three times Dr. Gootenberg soared up from Paterson, flew low over inaccessible, snow-covered woodlands, pelting down 750 bags filled with corn, wheat, millet, rye. Consolidated Sportsmen was also busy last week adding 75 bird self-feeders to the 125 it has already placed in remote New Jersey swamps and forests...
Anyone who knifes a work of art is judged insane, yet every art critic has a list of art works he would like to knife. On nearly every such list is Jean Francois Millet's The Angelus, a calm brown picture of a peasant and his wife standing at prayer in the middle of a field. An ably painted picture, it is deplored because of its ubiquity on art calendars, school rostrums, candy boxes...
...Millet painted The Angelus in 1859 at Barbizon, France, which gave its name to the Barbizon school of French painting. Said he: "A peasant I am, a peasant I shall die." He saw the humble Barbizon peasants pause in their work to pray at the sound of the Angelus bell. Back in his studio, he painted the picture from memory. He sold it for $120. A French department store tycoon named Chauchard paid $150,000 for it in 1910, bequeathed it to the Louvre...