Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rise of the modern woodcut dates from 1898, the year of the "First Exhibition of Original Wood--Engraving" in London. Two of the artists in that exhibition are now represented in the present exhibition, Lucien Pissaro, with a portrait of his father, Camille, a gift of H. S. Bowers '00, and William Nicholson with a decorative print, "Horse Race." Nicholson in this cut shows a daring use of solid blacks offset with buff and touches of other colors...
Among the subjects to be shown during the next two weeks are Civil War photographs taken by Brady, several portraits of Jules Verno by Carjet, together with the portrait work done in 1880 by Nadar. Outstanding in the field of local color photographs are the Paris scenes of 1890 that will be displayed during this period. Those were taken by the eminent Parisian photographer, Atget...
...Flynn's book is crammed with fascinating material which unfortunately has been put together a little too hastily to make a sharply drawn and forceful portrait of either the man or his time. His appraisal of the man differs markedly from that of Rockefeller's early muckrackers, William D. Lloyd and Ida Tarbell, who wrote before the great philanthropies had mellowed public sentiment and mergers had become respectable. These critics were dominated by the competitive ideal which Rockefeller perceived at the outset as false and inapplicable to the exigencies of the business situation and which we have more recently come...
...amiable doctor becomes frantic in his search for the paintings, which no one save the maid, Abby (Pauline Lord), has ever cherished. For a while it looks as if Mrs. Haggett had burned the pictures, that the only thing to do is swindle Abby out of her own portrait. Then the pictures.are found-and Abby blows the whole greedy plot to bits with an astonishing revelation. Shy, shrinking Actress Lord's last two parts (one before: The Truth About Blayds) have required her quietly to maintain a fierce loyalty to a dead genius. She does it excellently. Walter Connolly...
...Maxton, M. P., famed for his fiery leadership of Britain's Laborite left wing, fidgeted like a schoolboy when he was told that Sir John Lavery, famed painter of beauteous women, had called him "the most remarkable man in the House of Commons" and wanted to do his portrait. Protested he: "I've never had my portrait painted, I might not like it, or, which would be worse, I might not be a good sitter. He might make me too like myself...