Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certainty in Paris last week by Walter Evans Edge. At the great Spring Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts and the Society of French Artists-prime event of the French art year, real Parisians as well as gaping tourists lined up in open admiration before the portrait of a pretty, shapely young woman in a bright red gown against a peacock-blue background-Camilla Loyall Ashe Sewall Edge, wife of the U. S. Ambassador, by Portraitist Edward Everett...
...Aberdeen Angus Bull and Mark Symons' Crucifixion ("Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?") drew the most comment. In the latter, Calvary was peopled with a jeering crowd of moderns such as might be seen in any derisive London or Manhattan mob. There were the usual mannerly portraits of royalty. In one room Dame Laura Knight, attired in a white felt sombrero, with red pigtails coiled over her ears, was to be seen contemplating her own scenes of circus life, and Artist George Frederick Arthur Belcher stalked about, his ruddy face and bushy red eyebrows...
...customary, Tailor & Cutter, London's sartorial trade sheet, reviewed the clothes painted by artists upon their subjects. "The collar seam is incorrect, the sleeve is a catastrophe!" railed Tailor & Cutter at Sir William Orpen's portrait of Architect Guy Dawber. "Alas, all of Sir William's sleeves are wrong this year...
...John Pierpont Morgan, Michael Friedsam, Charles M. Schwab, Jules Semon Bache, et al. Of another event-of-the-week Director Valentiner was prouder still. He was able to announce that, thanks to his own astute connoisseurship, his Detroit Institute of Art had acquired a genuine Titian, the golden, mellow portrait of a Venetian Doge. For this masterpiece, which he valued at $150,000, Director Valentiner had paid only $400, at an auction of part of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum's great Havemeyer Collection (TIME, March 24). It had been labeled "School of Titian," but Director Valentiner, observing...
...PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS AMERICAN -Matthew Josephson-Harcourt, Brace...