Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short time ago in the House, a representative from Alabama made certain suggestions of ways to treat the labor question by meeting the laborers on their own ground, by giving them at least a fair representation in all disputes. Another member immediately arose, pointed to the portrait of Washington, pointed to the American flag, and then turning to the speaker, said: "Now look at the gentleman from Alabama!" By exalting the scions of Patriotism, he was accusing one who had suggested constructive reform measures, slightly radical though they may have been, of non-Americanism. And the House applauded...
...poster portrait of Lincoln, which Mr. Charles Falls designed to Advertise Drinkwater's "Abraham Lincoln," now playing to tense audiences at the Cort Theatre, New York City, has come to an extraordinary end for a poster; it has been secured by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The drawing is singularly well adapted in style, we are told, not merely to Lincoln's rugged personality, but to Drinkwater's spare, and yet significant, outline of Lincoln, in his strangely effective drama. The picture is flatly done in black and white against a dull orange background...
...Harold's Pilgrimage," with a lock of the poet's hair inserted between the leaves. Byron's famous satire, "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," is an especially rare piece of his early work, as are also his "Hours of idleness" and "Hebrew Melodies." The exhibit is completed by a portrait, manuscripts, and letters...
...remarkably fin portrait by Goya has been lent to the Fogg Art Museum and placed on exhibition in the Gallery. The portrait represents the Toreador Romero and is a striking characterization. It is painted in warm grays, black, white, and violet, with a bright not in the rose colored lining of the sitter's jacket, and is executed with great subtlety and refinement of technique...