Word: painters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times: Jeremiah Gridley, of the class of 1725, often called the "father of the Boston bar," and Benjamin Pratt, of the class of 1737, an eminent Boston lawyer and later chief justice of New York State. These two men were painted by Thomas Swibert of Boston, a famed American painter, ranked next to Copley in importance by many authorities on colonial artists...
...anyone worthy of being heard and the extant words in praise of the piece are made unconvincing by halting qualification. If the painting is as bad as Mr. Pachs says it is, there is nothing to be gained by holding it up as a master work of a great painter. Undoubtedly the most conspicuous work of art in Harvard College, it has potentially the greatest chance of influencing the taste of Harvard...
...confused with Emil Fuchs, painter and sculptor, of Manhattan...
...Jersey public utilities. During the war he established a Liberty Loan office, sold innumerable bonds. His dynamic existence takes him twice a year to France. He chases over the fairways at St. Cloud, chases to art collectors, buys with zest. With him goes the gracious Mrs. Dale, herself a painter of stage decorations, a writer of cogent art criticism. In three years they have gathered more than 300 modern French paintings, from the glossy classicism of David to the vaporous prettiness of Marie Laurencin...
...best known and most significant painter of U. S. portraits lay for many years in an unmarked grave in the old General Central Burying Ground in Boston Common. In 1897 the Paint and Clay Club attached a bronze tablet in the form of a palette...