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Awarded. To Jerry Farnsworth, 37 portraitist for TIME & FORTUNE, newly-elected associate member of the National Academy of Design: the Academy's Thomas B. Clarke prize of $300 for "best figure composition" for his The Guide...
...with a better artist and in a better cause (a loan exhibition at the Widenstein Galleries for New York's Child Welfare Committee), Maud Dale revived the work of one of M. Bouguereau's contemporaries, the late Giovanni Boldini. Giovanni Boldini ("Zanin" to intimates) was a society portraitist as artificial as any who ever stretched a lady's fingers to tickle her vanity. Modernists excuse Zanin Boldini for a virtue denied most Academicians, an exuberance, vivacity and frank sensuousness that won him the title of "Master of Swish" and made his huge canvases on view last week...
...great-great-grandniece of George Washington, Mary Washington Bond, from the hands of Sir Thomas Lipton and the brother of the Khedive of Egypt (to whom she was successively reported engaged) and married her. Wasp-waisted Mary Bond was the most beautiful debutante in New York, referred to by Portraitist Richard Hall as ''the perfect woman, nobly planned." Daughter Victoria Morosini eloped with the family coachman and was disinherited. Nobody but the immediate family ever saw Daughter Amelia. According to Riverdale gossip she was horribly mauled by a pet bear as a child, disfigured for life, always lived...
...Hearst Cosmopolitan this month printed a drawing of Mrs. Roosevelt with rosebud lips opposite a most unflattering portrait of Lou Henry Hoover, both by able Portraitist James Montgomery Flagg. Macfadden's touching Babies Just Babies, edited by Mrs. Roosevelt, was born last week...
...Ferdinand of Bulgaria to paint the Archbishop Gregorious. His portraits of the Archbishop, the Prince and his wife, gave his work the cachet it needed. Since then he has immortalized almost the entire Almanack de Gotha, visited every royal court except that of China. Like every brilliantly successful court portraitist, he has had to be a diplomat as well as an artist. The Countess Greffulh is almost unique among his subjects in that she considered his painting of her insufficiently lovely. Immensely popular with his patrons, Artist de Laszlo is somewhat less admired by artists, who doubtless envy...