Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scene was London's solemnly hideous Albert Hall. For the observance of U.S. Thanksgiving Day, its dark Victorian interior was blanketed with American flags, and the flags of all 48 states. A portrait of Lincoln hung from the proscenium; a spotlight played on an American eagle...
...Labeled Portrait of an Officer, Artist Unknown, it looked like a good, average, 18th-Century antique wall-piece, the kind that lends hints of lineage to a paneled drawing room. Bailey Stanton, Chicago lawyer and amateur art collector, liked it enough to buy it at auction...
...something there," said Dr. Goldblatt, who once helped the Louvre authenticate its famed Mona Lisa. He was, in fact, "90% sure it was a Trumbull" (John Trumbull, 18th-Century American historical painter and portraitist). Later he raised his assurance to 100%. And it was probably a portrait of Lafayette...
...National Gallery in Washington, which had never lent one of its Mellon paintings, finally yielded to Chicago cajoling, sent Gilbert Stuart's Portrait of Mrs. Richard Yates in a Pullman drawing room with the National Gallery assistant director for company...
...Portrait of Albert Pinkham Ryder (see cut), a recollection of the 19th-Century U.S. master whom Hartley knew and revered. Of a Ryder painting he once said: ". . . the power that was in it shook the rafters of my being...