Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Self Portrait of the Artist Slightly Squiffed by Baron Vivant Dominique Denon, Napoleon's chief looter and director of the Louvre...
ANDREW JACKSON: PORTRAIT OF A PRESIDENT-Marquis James-Bobbs Merrill...
Except for its duller opening chapters, covering Jackson's brief retirement at the age of 55, Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President matches the calibre of the first volume. Once Andrew Jackson is launched on the campaign that made him seventh U. S. President, Author James is pleasantly at home with a career which translated into politics "Old Hickory's" roaring virtues as an Indian and British fighter, frontier gallant, gambler, duelist. Apart from its fresh portraiture of Jackson, the book offers a well-lighted view of the background events which provided the dress rehearsal for the Civil...
...galleries, the Toledo Museum of Art last week acquired five paintings by contemporary U. S. painters, all of them well known. Bought before the paint was dry on it in Eugene Speicher's studio at Woodstock, N. Y. was Blue Necklace, a quietly florid and sexual portrait of a girl in a pink bodice, one shoulder strap fallen, brooding over a letter held in her open lap. Others: a sentimental painting of a young girl sewing by Frederick C. Frieseke. a vivid luminosity with figure by Alexander Brook, a nude by Guy Pène du Bois...
...TRANQUIL HEART - Catherine Carswell-Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio, by his first female biographer, who emphasizes not only his authorship of the Decameron 600 years ago but his importance as a political figure...