Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hats, who will act as ushers, tell timid matrons where to find comfort stations, etc. As official hostess was chosen 21-year-old Frances Nalle, with the title of Texas "Bluebonnet Girl."† And last week at San Antonio, Governor Allred crowned Janice Jarrat, artists' model (whose portrait appears on the cover of June Cosmopolitan) as the "Sweetheart of Texas Centennial" with the duty of acting as mistress of ceremonies at all the Fair's broadcasts, appearing at all major Centennial celebrations during the next three months...
...names that loomed large in Katherine Mansfield's life -the late Alfred Richard Orage and George Gurdjieff-he never mentions. Though he keeps picking away at the puzzle of his own personality through 496 pages, he never solves it. He admits his unpopularity: "There is more than one portrait of myself lurking in the pages of contemporary literature. . . . All alike are hostile: which is significant. . . . The main question among my acquaintances has been whether it is a respectable big devil that inhabits me, or a little mean one." His only answer to the question is to shrug his other...
From sixteenth century Italy there has lately come to the Fogg an imaginary portrait head, the gift of Mr. Grenville L. Winthrop '86 of New York City. It represents a type of small bronze, little known in this country but prominent in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and in older private collections such as the Morgan, or the Dreyfus Collection...
...brought over four years ago by Lord Duveen and shown at the Fogg. The head is the work of the conservative, elegant wing of late Renaissance sculpture which at first sight appears to be a copy of some portrait of Marcus Aurelius with its finely shaped head, its mass of close curls and prominent brooding eyes, all familiar from his equestrian statue as emperor and his marble bust...
Illinois went in for barns, with a dazzling red one by Dale Nichols and another by J. William Kennedy. Superbly banal was Paul Trebilcock's slick portrait study of Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt in red velvet with her sister Thelma, Viscountess Furness. A rare French influence showed in Split Rock Lighthouse by Minnesota's Eleanor DeLaitre, a yellow lighthouse painted with the vivid shallowness of French Modernist Raoul Dufy. Missouri's John de Martelly offered two ably cartooned old crones in Economic Discussion over coffee & doughnuts...