Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost a spar. With him shipped his brother Will as first mate; also his youngest brother Hugh, shanghaied by mistake. Roger and Hugh were both in love with Mary de Peyster, but bashful Hugh had done nothing about it beyond carving the Sea Witch's figurehead into a portrait of her. Roger had popped the question, got the answer. Hugh's brothers saved his life on the outward voyage but were not able to help him otherwise; somehow he survived, became a good ship's carpenter...
...President-elect's arrival at Warm Springs climaxed an arduous and eventful week. In Manhattan he had watched Socialite Artist Natalie Van Vleck, who went to work in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce, dab the finishing touches to his portrait. By going 16 hours at a stretch, he had kept as many appointments as 50 per day. He had found time to address retiring President Abbott Lawrence Lowell and "the Harvard family" at the University's club. He had endorsed the back-to- the-farm movement and Secretary of State Stimson's reiterated Far Eastern policy of nonrecognition...
Sold for $2,200 in Manhattan was a Rembrandt Peale "porthole" (surrounded by painted oval frame of masonry) portrait of George Washington...
...Painter Gutmann, apologies for not identifying him with his portrait of Woodcutter Howard Heath in action...
...went to Worcester two years ago plans for a new building had already been made. More to the point, the money was already in hand, a legacy from Stephen Salisbury III. Director Taylor concentrated on building up his museum's collection. On view last week were a portrait of Diane de Poitiers by 16th Century null Clouet; a fine El Greco; a pair of portraits by Britain's great William Hogarth; a gallery of U. S. primitive art from Worcester County; another containing excellent examples of George Inness, Winslow Homer, Albert Ryder, Ralph Blakelock. Specially borrowed...