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...Rockefeller in the rotogravure section, smiling at golf balls or giving dimes to children, they perceive that the face is old, and say that it is mean. John Singer Sargent, greatest of U. S. portrait painters, had another opinion of that face. Last week Mrs. Frederick Arthur Osborn, wife of the famed physics professor, told how Sargent first showed his portrait of the financier...
...finished the picture in his workroom at Woodsome Lodge. Professor and Mrs. Osborn drove through a violent storm to see it. Sargent met them and then disappeared behind a partition, returning with an easel made of lima bean poles. "Turn round and hide your eyes," Sargent said; Professor and Mrs. Osborn obeyed...
...were lost," related Mrs. Osborn, "in contemplation of that portrait, and after a few minutes' silence Professor Osborn said 'Sargent, you have captured a quattrocento mystic, a saint, a Saint Francis of Assisi.' Whereupon Sargent, in the ebullience of youth, literally jumped from the floor, saying, 'Osborn, do you see that in that face? That's what...
Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc. New York...
Poring over maps in Manhattan in the so-called 20th century, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History put two enormous twos together and obtained a daring hypothetical four: similar fossils having been found in Europe and in western North America, there must have been a land bridge from Siberia to Alaska; central Asia had been the original point of dispersal of the animal kingdom, including mankind. Dr. Osborn mentioned the matter to his ablest zoologist and that young man, Roy Chapman Andrews, industriously raised half a million dollars to take a band of assorted scientists...