Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metropolitan Museum acquired a portrait by the earliest known painter in America, Gustavus Hesselius, a Swede, who settled in Philadelphia...
...Gatti-Casazza, of the Metropolitan, is full of surprises. His latest was a performance, for the first time in America, of Schilling's Mona Lisa. The opera is an ingenious attempt to explain the smile on the face of Da Vinci's famous portrait. The prologue and epilogue present a young wife with her old husband, sight-seeing in Florence. Both parts are taken by newcomers to the Metropolitan - Barbara Kemp, of the Berlin Opera, and Michael Bohnen, of the Munich Opera. The roles are dual. In the two acts of the piece they appear as Mona Lisa...
Howard Chandler Christy, commissioned recently to paint the portrait of President Harding has been asked to paint the portraits of six other Presidents of the United States: the two Adams, Monroe, Van Buren, Polk, Garfield. These portraits will hang in the salons of the "President Fleet" of the United States Shipping Board-which will carry Mr. Christy's fame even farther than American magazines have carried it already...
...once met him, and the anecdotes that hitherto have escaped general publicity, comes the announcement of the novel and distinctly appropriate method of celebration adopted by the Post office Department. In the new series of stamps being prepared are two dealing with Lincoln: a three-cent bearing his portrait and a one-dollar denomination with a picture of the memorial at Washington. Last Monday the first of these was put on sale at Hodgenville, Kentucky, and the second at Springfield, Illinois, as a mark of honor for his birthplace and the town in which he lived at the time...
Professor Arthur Pope of the Department of Fine Arts, will hold a conference at 3 o'clock on Monday, January 29, on the portrait by Rembrandt now on exhibition in the main gallery of the Fogg Art Museum. The conference will be open to the public...