Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tintoretto "Portrait of a Senator", presented to the Museum by the children of Charles Eliot Norton in honor of Norton's Centenary, celebrated yesterday at the Museum, is also exhibited, together with a Vittorio Criveili, a recent gift of Bernard Berenson '87, and Mrs. Berenson...
...began to buy their pictures. They won scholarships, medals, salon prizes. They are now represented in famed museums, chiefly English, all over the world. They live in St. John's Wood, London, surrounded by tubes of color, squares of canvas. Harold Knight is a member of the Royal Portrait Society; now Laura Knight has added England's deepest artistic tribute to the honor of the family...
...portraiture we find several examples that are worthy of attention. The portrait of "Hervey Wetzel" is one of the best with its fine composition, line, and tonality. It is a three-quarter length in profile against a silvery grey background. Henry Wetzel is seated on a chair, the outline of which is a soft undulating line. The splendid contrast of this with the hard vertical lines in the background adds aesthetically to the pictures. The eye also follows diagonal lines all of which form into a well balanced composition. The features themselves are obviously well done and strongly painted...
...rooms stand now, traces renfain of much that transpired within them. On the inside of a closet door there is a painting, reported as the work of F. D. Merritt, who lived in the rooms at one time, and later was commissioned by the University to make the portrait of Sopbocles, the eminent Greek professor, which now hangs in the faculty room in University Hall. Men who lived in the rooms 50 years ago have told of a painting in the same room, reputed to have extended all around the walls near the floor, in which the faculty members...
...Richthofen, the great German ace, with a surprising degree of authenticity. Now Lowell Thomas, author of "With Lawrence in Arabia," has told the amazing and almost unbelievably romantic story of Count Luckner's raids upon the Allied shipping of two oceans, and has given us a full-length portrait of this outstanding adventurer...