Word: portrait
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...terrain vehicle. The terrain he crossed was the human form, the social fabric and that permanent terra incognita, the human face. A man so stylish could never escape being dismissed as merely stylish, as though he weren't quite worthy of the name artist. Yes, his black-and-white portraits against a stark white background made the truth seem hip. All the same, you only had to stand before his unblinking portrait of President Dwight Eisenhower, a dwindling old warrior. If art is a word we use to describe things that tell us what we must know, about life...
...neither office nor salary. But from her place, flanked by former Harvard presidents William Stoughton and Nathan M. Pusey, University Hall’s newest addition—a portrait of Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, the first president of Radcliffe College—will stare intimidatingly down upon the denizens of the Faculty Room, after its installation at a ceremony yesterday afternoon...
...does not just represent female achievement,” Faust said at the ceremony of the portrait and Agassiz’s legacy. “She represents Radcliffe...
...added that the portrait’s installation in the Faculty Room—only the third portrait of a woman to decorate its walls—helps to affirm that “Radcliffe College did not just disappear in 1999, but is now part of the history of Harvard...
Agassiz’s portrait joins Zemurray-Radcliffe Professor of History Helen M. Cam, Harvard’s first female professor, and Phillips Professor of Astronomy Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, as the only women on the wall...