Word: painters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...barber, a friend of famed Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, was employed by the Albert Hotel in Manhattan, owned by the brother of Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder. Hearing of the barber's suicide, Painter Ryder was shocked. He painted a picture of a skeleton jockey perched upon a great white race horse. The great white horse was galloping around a race track. In the corner of the picture was a snake, to symbolize temptation...
...curious death of Jan Vermeer der Delft has in some part, been responsible for recent arguments about his works. A popular young painter, it was his misfortune to have lived in Delft in a studio near the site of a powder magazine. This, one disastrous day in 1675, exploded, removing all trace of Jan Vermeer, together with the majority of his works. In the excitement of losing so much good gunpowder, it was possible for people to forget the loss of an artist. The few of his paintings, about 40, which were not destroyed, remained obscure until 1871 when they...
...lovers journeying last week to Manhattan from Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Cincinnati* and other less important art centers were pleasantly aware that they would be able to scrutinize the works of famed English painter Augustus E. John at the Anderson galleries. Scanning 99 of his pictures, mostly portraits of famed persons, it would be possible for them to decide whether he was, as many critics have urged, a proper heir to the glory and prestige of famed John Singer Sargent...
...other important Manhattan exhibit was the collection of 24 pictures by famed Paul Cézanne, who, almost a quarter of a century after his death, is still perhaps the most noteworthy modernist painter...
Engaged. Miss Frances Lindon Smith, daughter of Joseph Lindon Smith, painter, and granddaughter of Major George Haven Putnam; to Raymond Otis, Chicago scion...