Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mysterious American collector, who has withheld his name, purchased Augustus John's famous portrait of Madame Suggia for the sum of $50,000. A vain effort was made to raise this sum by subscription to purchase the picture for the British nation. However, the purchaser is graciously permitting it to be hung for a while in one of the British National Museums before transporting it to America...
...encyclopedia of knowledge in themselves. His continual "searching for this and that" took other form besides that of book-collecting. His "great anthropomorphological collection", which he began in his early youth and pursued throughout his life, was one of the most original contributions to psychology. A face, a photograph, portrait or pose that interested him was duly enlisted and catalogued: marginal sketches of hands and feet (another sign of his versatility) turned the pages of his books and notebooks into illuminated manuscripts. Some of these, fortunately have been preserved in the large bequest to the University...
...most honored position is accorded to an American, the late Sir James Shannon, for his portrait of Prince and Princess Shimadzu in heavy costume...
...proportion of expatriates among our great artists would partially explain this. Whistler (quarrelsome cosmopolite), Mary Cassatt (grande dame in Paris), John Sargent (brilliant and fashionable London portrait painter) are three of our greatest figures-but hardly expressive of America...
Engaged. Dr. Albert Lorenz, Jr., 38, son of Dr. Adolf Lorenz, the Austro-Newark surgeon, to Margaret de Ferraris, daughter of Arthur de Ferraris, celebrated portrait painter. Last Christmas Dr. Lorenz was refused a license to marry Baroness Stancovic of Austria shortly after her arrival in New York on the ground that she had no right to remarry...