Word: millets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred and twenty-five drawings and prints have been brought together, covering the range of French pictorial art from the early nineteenth century classical revival of David through the romanticism of Delacroix and Gericault, to the pleinair and impressionistic schools in their various phases as represented by Corot, Millet, Monet, Manet, and Renoir. The work of these men is well known in Boston, and the Committee has assembled only a few of their paintings to illustrate the continuity of nineteenth century development and to lead up to the less known post-impressionists--Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and others...
...Louisine Waldron Elder mar ried Henry Osborne Havemeyer (Ameri can Sugar Refining Co.) and started to collect pictures in earnest. A few years later, she could walk into her private museum, gaze upon Veronese, del Sarto, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, de Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Cranach, El Greco, Goya, Millet, Monet, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes, Re noir, Pissarro, Corot, Poussin, Ingres, Cezanne, Mary Cassatt and Degas. If the mood was not for pictures, there were sundry other objets d'art - marbles by Donatello, Cyprian glass, Italian faience, Japanese lacquers, Hispano-Moresque plaques, and a collection of weird Degas excursions into clay...
...orphaned, the aged and desolate. For years Max Liebermann haunted the orphanages, asylums and old people's homes of Amsterdam and later the great German cities. A decade passed while critics flayed his canvases. Then slowly it was realized that Liebermann was doing for German art what Millet had done for French. Today Old Max may be labeled and pigeonholed as the "German Millet," an essentially bygone master, whom screeching modernist-art has left behind. Millet painted The Angelus, and The Gleaners. Old Max Liebermann has done Women Plucking Geese, An Asylum for Old Men, The Flax Spinners...
...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...