Word: painters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Louis Marie Julien Viaud, pen name Pierre Loti, 73, French novelist, sculptor, painter, musician, naval officer, at Hendaye, France. He travelled widely, particularly in the Orient...
Besides an ability to present a scene, Viscount Bryce has the power of describing people. An unbounded sympathy and a keen sense of humor gave him those qualities essential to the portrait painter. His picture of the Polish guide is unforgettable. "He was a strange wild creature, tall, stalwart, and handsome, with bold features, dark hair hanging in long locks round his cheeks and an expression in his eyes like that of a startled fawn. Not that I can remember ever to have seen a startled fawn: however, his expression, was just that which the startled fawn is supposed...
Died. Raphael Lewisohn, 55, celebrated painter and step-brother of Adolph Lewisohn, New York financier, in Paris. He was a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts...
Georges Desvallieres, famous French painter, here to serve on the jury of the Carnegie International Exhibition, does not believe that America has yet found a "master artist." Says he: "The works of Americans that I have seen . . . in your museums . . . seem to have been done to please the amateur. The soul [of America] is not yet expressed...
...proportion of expatriates among our great artists would partially explain this. Whistler (quarrelsome cosmopolite), Mary Cassatt (grande dame in Paris), John Sargent (brilliant and fashionable London portrait painter) are three of our greatest figures-but hardly expressive of America...