Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honors of the play, however, are mainly to be heaped before the door of Miss Lynn Fontanne. This singularly fine English actress (known in America principally for her delightful " Dulcy ") quite carries the play away. Despite her unconquerable English accent, almost Cockney, she gives an amazingly effective portrait of the nitwit heroine. Her sense of humor, her touch for character values are remarkable...
Ambassador Harvey : " Howard Chandler Christy painted a portrait of me in informal attire (soft collar, pipe-in-hand effect); Mrs. Post Wheeler, wife of the U. S. Charge d'Affaires in London, hung it in her house and had an ' at home.' Many society folk came to have a look...
...academicians as Birge Harrison, John F. Carlson, Eugene Speicher preserve a balance against the incursions of modernism. The Woodstock people are seldom extremists, but the majority are clearly under the influence of the newer currents. Of the names which stand out, Henry Lee McFee, with his solid and colorful Portrait of a Painter; Andrew Dasburg, with a landscape of New Mexico pueblos; George Bellows, with a group of striking drawings and lithographs; Charles Rosen, with a geometric landscape; Lucile Blanch, with a still life ; Henry Mattson, with a self-portrait; Ernest Fiene, with a portrait; and with Alfeo Faggi, with...
Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champion, has broken the charmed circle of Culture. A portrait of the pugilist by Alonzo V. Lewis, of Seattle, hangs in an exhibition of Western art at the Kansas City Art Institute, between a Spring Landscape and Indian Summer. The director of the Institute is in two minds about it. His first emotion was that "art was being degraded"; his second that "boxing is a man's game and a natural occupation " and therefore presumably as worthy of perpetuation in oil as any other slice of life. There is ample precedent; the Luxembourg...
...collection of Sir Joseph Robinson, millionaire mine operator of South Africa, brought $938,178 at Christie's - the largest sum ever realized in a single day's sale at the famous old London firm. The top price of $88,920 was fetched by Frans Hals' Portrait of a Gentleman, 19 times what it cost in 1885 when it left the de Zoete collection. The Hals is 45¼ by 35¼ inches, and shows a noble standing figure with pointed beard, ruff, black costume and hat, yellow gloves. None of the pictures are likely to come...