Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British hanged Robert Emmet, and his brother Thomas emigrated to the U. S. with his wife and daughter Elizabeth, who had a pretty talent in drawing. A fellow passenger on the packet was a portrait painter and steamboat designer named Robert Fulton, who set about improving Elizabeth Emmet's gift. Within eight years Thomas Emmet was Attorney General of the State of New York and Elizabeth Emmet was beginning her career as a portrait painter...
...talent stretched over 100 years seldom produces a genius. Nevertheless two living Emmets of the third generation have considerable reputations among society portraitists: Lydia Field Emmet, Ellen Emmet Rand. Of greatest interest to gallery goers was Lydia Field Emmet's boyhood portrait of her nephew, the best-known contemporary of the clan, lanky playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (Reunion in Vienna, The Petrified Forest, Idiot's Delight...
Historical Portraits. For almost a year the distinguished Knoedler Galleries has owned the famed Clarke Collection of U.S. historical portraits (TIME, Feb. 10), tried to sell them intact for something near their appraised valuation of $1,000,000 without breaking the collection. As a tactful cough to remind the U.S. public that the Clarke Collection is still in their vaults and still for sale, Knoedler's last week borrowed from such assorted owners as J.P. Morgan, William Randolph Hearst, Yale University and the Museum of the City of New York another group of 29 historical portraits of first importance...
...zanne as an artist: Dealer-Collector Ambroise ("Fifi") Vollard (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933). Dealer Vollard, who has trapdoors cut in the doors of his Paris house for his favorite cats, but seldom bothers to give them names, admitted that he had posed 115 times for the Cézanne portrait of him in last week's exhibition. He found nothing in New York so exciting as the huge grey squirrels of Central Park...
...John James Audubon's story in a slender, attractive volume of Americana that was less a biography than a biographical essay on the naturalist. One of the two November choices of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Audubon is beautifully illustrated with twelve color plates, presents a romantic portrait of its hero with most emphasis on his picturesque frontier experiences, his difficulties in England and France, little emphasis on his harsh discouragements. Its high point deals with Audubon's awakening ambitions in the South. The dramatic bird life of Louisiana, where adroit and playful mockingbirds chase dogs...