Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some forty pages. Thomas H. Dickinson analyzes Governor Alfred E. Smith in THE PORTRAIT OF A MAN AS GOVERNOR (The MacMillian Co., New York, 1928. $1.) and finds him pleasing to the eye and mind. The moral quality of loyalty, the mental quality of mastery, he finds, have made Smith what he is, and will, perhaps, make him what his many supporters hope he will be. There is a foreword by George Foster Peabody...
Miss Crews' acting of the disagreeable mother role granting the truth of the author's conception of this role that of an artificial and self-centered woman is very close to perfection, and one could hardly imagine a more convincing portrait of the daughter in-law battling for her rights than that given by Elisabeth Risdon, who fully justifies the predictions made for her future when she was still in minor roles...
Among the paintings on exhibition are several interiors by Pieter de Hooch; a portrait and an interior by Terborch; a banquet scene by Dirk Hals; landscapes by Hobbema and Ruisdael, and a portrait by Antonio Moro...
...Berlin the speaker's rostrum of the Reichstag was surmounted with a wreath of laurel leaves, to honor Painter-Goldsmith-Etcher Albrecht Dürer. Upon the desk of the President of the Reichstag stood, for a day, the Christ-like portrait which Artist Dürer painted of himself...
...Sloans was the largest ever paid for the works of a living U. S. artist, it still did not rival the $55,000 which Mr. Knoedler & Co. paid when the collection of the late Charles H. Senff was sold last week, for Frans Hals's Portrait of a Dutch Lady. It is an interesting demonstration of the force of fashions among collectors that, in one evening's bidding at the same sale, 35 pictures by members of the Dutch School, Velazquez, and Corot (whose works bring the highest prices of all more recent artists) were sold...