Word: portraitists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...primarily a portraitist, Corbino concentrates on the sweeping gestures and bodily movements of the men, women and horses that he paints. Attendant weakness of Painter Corbino's work is that his classically muscular people and horses lack individuality, look very much alike. Though he belongs to a generation of revolutionary painters, Painter Corbino snorts scornfully at modern...
...Academy ransacked the 2,000 art works, good and bad, it had accumulated during the past 116 years, picked some 300 and this week put on a retrospective exhibition. Dignified portraits of N.A.s, received as initiation fees, ornamented the museum's classical walls, went back as far as Portraitist Samuel F. B. Morse, who invented the telegraph in the interim between two terms as the Academy's president...
Died. George de Forest Brush, 84, oldtime U.S. portraitist, of 19th-Century academic traditions, past whose pretty, clear-colored mother-&-child portraits, prominently hung in older museums, the U.S. museum-strolling public has for 50 years beaten a reverent, admiring path; in Hanover...
There was an exalted memory of Percy's father: "Epstein with his heads neurotic, restless, ugly, is the appropriate portraitist of this generation, but . . . Father . . . would have been at home on the west portal of Chartres with those strong ancients, severe and formidable and full of grace, who guard the holy entrance...
...unknown pre-Christian Roman looked more like Senator David I. Walsh or President Roosevelt. Most popular cynosure was Thomas Sully's famed, appealing portrait of a boy, The Torn Hat. Back Baynims were somewhat griped over the absence of Boston's own famed, facile society Portraitist John Singer Sargent. Retorted the Museum's Director George Harold Edgell: "In this collection, Sargent couldn't compete with Rubens, Velasquez and El Greco...