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...exhibition because of his amateur standing was the winner of the Yale Club's amateur art show last winter. To judge it a distinguished jury had been chosen: President Jonas Lie of the National Academy of Design, Dean Everett V. Meeks of the Yale School of Fine Arts, Portraitist Augustus Vincent Tack. Carefully they inspected the work of Yale's amateur painters, awarded first prize to an impressionistic watercolor sketch of a child's head...
Collector Frick paid more attention to the advice of experts than to his own taste but he did have a weakness for portraits. Two interested critics particularly. In the Oval room, flanked by Whistlers, hangs one of the greatest works of the world's greatest society portraitist-Velasquez's portrait of Philip IV" of Spain in a rose coat. This picture cost Frick $475,000. Round the corner hangs another portrait by another great countryman who for a time tried to paint in a way Velasquez did later, not realizing that he had spiritual gifts far greater than...
Jerry Farnsworth, able Cape Cod portraitist, whose Jan de Groot took the $150 Thomas R. Proctor Prize for the best portrait in the show...
Prosperous Portraitist Paul Chabas, 66, summoned reporters to his Paris studio last week to kill one news story and make another. He had just finished a portrait of Mrs. Walter E. Edge, wife of President Hoover's Ambassador to France. It was not, however, that work that he wanted to talk about but the most famed picture he ever painted-September Morn...
Conceived five years ago and made possible as a tribute to Princeton's sport by a group of Princeton sportsmen headed by Henry Fairfield Osborn Jr., the canvases were the work of shy, spectacled William Yarrow, 43, no Princetonian, but a well-known portraitist who divided his time between Dublin, N. H. and Florence, Italy to compose the triumphs of the Orange & the Black. Big, bold figures drawn from undergraduate models with technical advice from coaches and team captains, Artist Yarrow's works depict a relay race in which Princeton has the inside track and a Yale runner...