Word: painters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...native to one bit of geography as another. Nor could people, any person, hold her. She saw through them, always had her own way. Her best lover, impetuous, paint-daubing Rico, she had subjugated. Now he was merely the futile, shallow Sir Henry Carrington, would-be London society painter, her husband. Their relation had paled to nervous platonism, Lou doubting there was a man who could think quickly and far enough, love largely enough, to fulfill her. Rico looked anxiously after other women...
Doubtless Mr. Coolidge feels that he could never make a great motion picture star. Perhaps he is right, but there is always room for an intelligent and hard-working young man in Hollywood. Who knows what a little brown grease painter, a gay turban, and an Arab steed might do. The screen is perpetually looking for a successor to the great Valentino...
...four daughters of the Rev. George B. Macdonald. Alice married J. Lockwood Kipling, was the mother of Rudyard Kipling. Agnes married Sir Edward Paynter, onetime (1896-1919) President of the Royal Academy. Georgiana became Lady Burne-Jones, wife of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, famed painter...
...have ever hated all nations, professions and communities . . . but principally I hate and detest that animal called man." So wrote the angry Irishman, Jonathan Swift. So has come to think that onetime cable of conservatism, Painter Sir William Orpen. His painting was the exception: A white bear stands in the glare of a Paris prize ring. There is blood at his feet; he has just consummated upon a human bruiser, now unconscious, brutalities so magnificent that spectators of every sex, replete with ecstasy at the spectacle, slobber and clip, heedless of an ape that sits among them, scrutinizing with remote...
...said, last week, that Sargent was the only contemporary painter who could make an important honor appear silly by receiving it; that there is a picture of his in every museum in the world that has been able to secure one; that the British National Gallery, hitherto reserved for those artists whose respectability has been fortified by death, gave a room to his paintings of the Wertheimer family...