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EUGENE HIGGINS-Braverman, 23 East 67th. Oils, watercolors, drawings and etchings by a minor U.S. romantic (1874-1958). Like his artistic forerunner, France's Jean Francois Millet, whom he admired and imitated, Higgins painted somber configurations of the lowly-peasants, tramps, and refugees. Through...
...been as monolithic as it looks. An east-west line drawn across the country between the valleys of the Yangtze and Yellow rivers divides North from South China. North of the line, summers are short and hot, winters long and bitterly cold, and the principal crops are wheat and millet. The men of North China are often as tall as Americans, relatively placid, ceremonial and-say the southerners-slow-thinking. South of the line, the climate is hot and humid, and the principal crop is rice. Broken up into valleys and small plains by innumerable mountain ranges, the South...
...work that had fallen out of favor. "The feathery things are coming back,'' he said. "Privately, the big dealers are buying them up and salting them away." He looked over his own museum's Barbizon collection, decided that by adding paintings from local collectors (including Millet's once famous Man with a Hoe), he would have a strong start toward a major show. Howe took his idea to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, which also had a sizable Barbizon collection. Before long he had an imposing list of honorary sponsors, including French Culture Minister...
Turmoil & Calm. The Barbizon artist most misunderstood in later years was Jean François Millet, whose studies of peasants, notably The Angelus and The Man with a Hoe, splashed him with a reputation for sentimentality. Millet himself protested that he could not understand how anybody could consider the French peasant "jolly," and today, seen afresh, the paintings justify his protests. He painted his peasants with brooding compassion, saw in them "true humanity, the great poetry," but the mood is somber rather than sentimental. They bend to their labors patiently but also hopelessly, condemned to struggle against stubborn nature...
...some style with his sex, producer John Millet wisely called on Ciji Ware to choreograph the show. Unhappily, Act I has only one production number for Miss Ware to handle, so most of the hootchie-kootchie was left to the absent Mr. Graham-White to deal with; and his bad taste is consistent. I like as much kootch in my hootch as the next man, but there were moments when I felt myself compromised by what was going on up there. For one example, instead of having Stephen Canfield (Daniel Cheever), Ninotcha's American, merely kiss his frosty Russian...