Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this the only trouble that side-burned, spectacled Painter Sir John has had with portraits of his wife. Observers recalled that Lady Cunard offered a Lavery portrait of Lady Lavery to the Tate Gallery in 1923 (TIME, Aug. 13, 1923). The portrait was refused not because of the subject's age, not because she was not Irish. The committee simply did not like...
...Last week, his daughter, Margaret French Cresson, viewed with pride his latest figure in bronze. It was called Whence, Whither, Wherefore. As chairman of the exhibition, Daughter could draw attention to Father's fine mastery of detail. But she allowed others to point out her own bronze portrait bust of Commander Richard E. Byrd...
...prodigious fortune made her a social enchantress. Speaking flawless French, acquired from her mother, she was received in the almost impenetrable salons of the Faubourg St. Germain in Paris. Her Nevada brand of horsemanship, exhibited in the Bois du Boulogne, was the despair of French equestriennes. Meissonier painted her portrait. Ludovic Halevy portrayed her in L'Abbe Constantin, the novel which won him a seat among the "40 Immortals" of the French Academy. While Mr. Mackay remained in the U. S., she crossed the Channel to London, repeated her triumphs. Her mansion on Carlton House Terrace was decorated with...
...none of these three has succeeded in maintaining as has Augustus John, a triple allegiance with fashionable public, ultra-modernists and academicians. It is undeniable that no U. S. artist is included among the world's most popular portrait painters. Thirty years ago, Eastman Johnson and Daniel Huntington, painters of highly unequal merit, were accustomed to use their brushes, as though they had been valets' whiskbrooms, upon the handsome exteriors of fashionable people in Manhattan and elsewhere. Knoedler's Gallery is largely responsible for the change. Since the time when its senior partner began to import...
Because no person will agree with another person's view of him, few persons are satisfied with their portraits. John Davison Rockefeller expressed delight at seeing Sargent's portrait of him but Calvin Coolidge, when he had been painted by Philip Lazlo, sent for the artist to come and finish one of his hands. What emotions of embarrassment, scorn, amusement and despair Painter Lazlo must have concealed in the letter which he addressed to the President to inform him that the hand was finished...