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...Palmer returned to the U. S.; rested on her laurels. In 1918, she died at Sarasota, Fla., bequeathing her collection of Corot, Bissavis, Whistler, Monet, Millet, to the Chicago Art Institute; her castle and fortune to Potter Palmer...
...MILLET HAND...
...whom were the chief paintings in the Taft collection painted? Names: Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Hals, Hobbema, Goya, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Turner, Millet, Inness, Chase...
...tuberculosis bacillus is a tiny rod-shaped germ, which causes peculiar little translucent, greyish nodules the size of millet seeds. The phthisis victim loses weight, wastes away. He suffers from a fever that fluctuates with the time of day.* Prevention should start in childhood, the period when a predisposition to the disease may be developed, Professor Gaetano Ronzoni, of Milan, said to the International Union. Later, it is possible to cure a patient with persistent, attentive care...
...them unfamiliar; they are pictures that have adorned, in reproduction, millions of book-plates, art calendars, folios, and frontispieces. There is Whistler's restrained and noble picture of his mother, the old lady folded in silence like the fall of her quiet dress, hearing voices fade, footsteps pass; Millet's "Angelus," the bent peasants in their luminous field; the perfumed floridity of Nicholas Poussin's "Orpheus and Eurydice," Jacques Louis David's capable "Portrait of Pius VII"; "Renaul and Armide" one of the classic posturings of François Boucher, the courtier who painted ceilings with...