Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Watch for the next portrait of a prominent Harvard Figure, appearing in Monday's Crimson. It is a regular Crimson feature...
...Saturday issue of the Crimson an editor will write a portrait of James Phinney Baxter, associate professor in History and Master of Adams House...
...Portrait painters have never done much business with John D. Rockefeller Sr. Until last week there were only two known portraits of him that he had paid for. John Singer Sargent had done them both. Last week a third was added. The painter was one Michael Matsakas, 36, a Greek Chicagoan with curly black sideburns, who has been a busboy, wrestler and interior decorator in public; a poet, philosopher and painter in private. The price: a used pale blue necktie...
Michael Matsakas has never sold a painting, never exhibited one in a gallery, never painted a nude. He had long looked upon Mr. Rockefeller as a great man. Last autumn Michael Matsakas painted his portrait from a photograph, a firmly painted, kindly portrait of a hale old man wearing a dark blue tie. For a Christmas present he sent it to Mr. Rockefeller with a note, "I always have been a great admirer of yours and the wonderful things you have done for humanity." A month later, just after New Year's Day, he got it back with...
...Christian Scientist and Roman Catholic exhibits, and a long, L-shaped Hall of Religions with a Gothic tower, containing such churchly wares as Protestants have cared to show (notably the silver Chalice of Antioch which may have been the Holy Grail, and Col. Henry Stanley Todd's virile portrait of Christ-TIME, April 17). Nearest thing to a Parliament is a corollary to the Fair which opened last week at the Hotel Morrison-the World Fellowship of Faiths...