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...range the world, meeting celebrities and learning languages-acquiring, incidentally, a love of the sea, which became his favorite theme. He knows Asia, the Near East, Africa. He spent 1904 in Greece. In France before the War he met Georges Clemenceau at the studio of Claude Monet. In 1914 he offered his polylinguistic services to the Tiger. He served as an officer in the French, British and U. S. Armies successively. Especially adept was he at detecting whether or not a man's dialect in any language corresponded to the town he purported to be from; by this means...
...interpret life. It is as good a standard as any other but leads inevitably to the conclusion that lusty Rubens was one of the greatest artists who ever lived; and that patrician Velasquez, who "painted the King's face in precisely the same spirit as his modern kinsman Monet painted haystacks," was little more than an expert technician. The 500 pages of the book are a learned sausage stuffed with much meat. Author Craven has spent three years writing it, studied original sources all over Europe to prove his points...
...obtained through the cooperation of the F. Kleinberger Galleries of New York, a sixteenth-century interior attributed to Quentin Massys, lent by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and a South-German interior lent by A. S. Drey, of New York. Dunean Phillips, of Washington, is contributing a Monet and a Bonnard...
...British exhibit is unsatisfactory. The modern French collection (Puvis de Chavannes, Corot, Manet, Monet) is also sparse. But six Metropolitan galleries will be opened on March 11 containing the famed Havemeyer collection (TIME, Feb. 4, 1929) which will greatly swell the museum's resources with fine specimens of Courbet, Corot, Manet, Monet, Renoir. Degas, El Greco, Millet, Puvis de Chavannes, Poussin, Ingres, Cezanne, Veronese, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, De Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Goya. All in all. those who can content themselves with great artistry before Cezanne will find the Metropolitan a fascinating repository of paintings, not as great...
President and Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell have lent one of the interesting Monet's in the exhibition. It is an excellent example of Monet's scientific handling of color and of the artist's ability to express just what one sees at a glance