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...visitors to the Louvre will have the chance of a lifetime to taste the cream of three centuries of English talent. The paintings begin with Hogarth's famed Shrimp Girl and end with the soundly inspired work of Genre-Painter Walter Sickert, Landscapist Philip Wilson Steer, Portraitist Augustus John. Nothing controversial, nothing new mars the orderly display of masterwork. But in Reynolds' and Gainsborough's stately figures, Constable's English clouds and countryside, Turner's light, Blake's line and Rossetti's pattern, most Frenchmen last week found a powerful concentration of evidence...
Serious U. S. landscape painting began with a Connecticut portraitist named Ralph Earl, one of whose clients paid him in 1800 to paint the view from his farm. The result. Looking East from Leicester Hills, was dim but sufficient evidence that the "U. S. Scene" was already discovered. Among Earl's successors...
...Example, dedicated to the Chicago-born late wife of Sir John Lavery, portraitist...
...next to the Steel Pier for 17 years. Self-taught, he pioneered floodlighting, cement statues, the personal sketch. Ten years ago, against his better artistic judgment, he installed easel and paper sketching pads to meet modern competition. He has sand-modeled such celebrities as Paderewski, Caruso, Valentino, Gilda Gray, Portraitist William Chase (who told him to "keep it up"). He specializes in monumental masterpieces like "The Empty Chair," "Lion of Lucerne," "Old Skipper's Tale." A special Spagnola attraction is a pair of big sand & cement dragons with light-bulb eyes, open mouths to receive coins which tinkle down...
Died. Paul Chabas, 68, French portraitist who painted the famed September Morn; after long illness; in Paris. The model, who for two summers (1910-1911) stood ankle deep in chilly Lake Annecy while he painted slowly and meticulously, is now the wife of a French industrialist whose name he has kept a secret. Said Painter Chabas, who only last month began "involuntary retirement": "Although several fortunes have been made from my picture, nobody was thoughtful enough to send me even a box of cigars...