Word: painters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Thomas Allen, 74, famed painter and Chairman of the Boston Art Commission; in Worcester, Mass., of heart disease. In 1882, 1887 and 1889 his pictures were exhibited in the Paris salons. He was once judge of awards in the Chicago Exposition...
...This talk about gin and petting parties is, for the lack of a better word, bunk I'" Alphonso XIII of Spain: "John D. Rockefeller and I were elected foreign associate members of the French Academy of Arts?I to replace the late Joaquim Sorolla y Bastida, Spanish painter; Mr. Rockefeller to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Shannon, of London. It was said that Mr. Rockefeller's election was prompted by the fact that he had donated 18,000,000 francs ($900,000) to various French causes." Tyrus R. Cobb, Manager of the Detroit American League Baseball...
Scarcely a painter in all the history of Art has been so vilified, so passionately abhorred as Paul Cezanne (1839-1906). The salons were closed to him; his private exhibitions were succès de scandale; through connivance with the heirs, the Louvre managed to avoid owning the three paintings by him in the Caillebotte collection...
...Berheim Fils, Place de la Madeleine, with an admission charge to swell the fund for a proposed monument to him. It is encouraging to know that the artist engaged to achieve the monument is no less than the eminent sculptor Aristide Maillol. Said Paul Cezanne, son of the painter, when asked what his father would have thought of having a monument: "I think he would have preferred to have another picture in the Louvre...
...Lapland (Red Star)?Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, Belgian Ambassador to the U. S.; Augustus John, famed British painter...