Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insisted on serving roast turkey and pumpkin pie on the banks of the Neva. But she would not be of the slightest interest to the U. S. public today if her son James Abbott McNeill Whistler had not grown to be a great artist, had not painted her portrait in 1872, the last portrait he ever got past the outraged admissions committee of the Royal Academy. One of the best known portraits in the world, it last week arrived in the U. S. for the first time in 50 years, was exhibited behind a stout iron railing in New York...
...staged by Blanche Yurka, with Esther Dale in the title role and 13 memorably explicit little settings by Norris Houghton, Carry Nation is an extremely interesting, somewhat wry portrait of a U. S. phenomenon. It reaches no climaxes, appears more like a piece by Herbert Asbury for the American Mercury than a play, but the amateur of Americana should get his money's worth from...
...wing will be used principally to house the collection given to the University in 1930 by Mrs. Aaron Naumberg of New York. Included in the collection is Rembrandt's famous "Portrait of an Old Man", and also noted paintings by Franz Hals, Bartolomeo Murillo, Lorenzo di Credi, El Greco and others...
...portrait of Thomas Hill, who preceded the late Charles Eliot as President of Harvard University, has recently been hung in the front entrance of the Dental School. The picture has been loaned to the school by Harvard College, and will remain in its new location indefinitely. Until its recent transfer, the portrait had been hanging in the Freshman Union. It was during the administration of President Hill that the Dental School was founded...
...picture in the work of Mrs. A. E. Rand, a well known portrait painter, who has done two or three other pictures of Bishop Lawrence...