Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is now on exhibition at the galleries of Doll and Richards, 71 Newbury Street, Boston, of about 30 watercolors and a few portrait drawings by Professor Arthur Pope '01, of the Fine Arts department...
Radio sets attuned to WJZ one night last week caught neither bedtime Fuchs (the Austrian who drew Edward VII's portrait for British postage stamps) had the air. Sardonic, whimsical, he said...
...supplied him by John D. Rockefeller Jr., the Colgate (soap) family, Thomas Alva Edison and other earnest souls. He concentrated his efforts upon enforcing Section 1141 of New York's penal code, a famed paragraph lobbied through by the whiskered subject of the Suppression office's chief portrait. He suppressed Jurgen, famed allegory by James Branch Cabell. He did quite well until 1919 when he inadvertently attacked Harper & Bros. for publishing the dull biography of a prostitute. He obtained a conviction, but Harpers won their appeal in New York's highest court, which weakened Comstockian Section...
There are now so many good private U. S. collections that choice is difficult. Last week Jackson Johnson of St. Louis, Chairman of the International Shoe Co. was reported to have made his collection (a Romney, a Raeburn, etc.) more eclectic by buying in London Van Dyck's "Portrait of Queen Henrietta," painted by order of Charles...
...most honorable 10th Marquess of Queensberry, 31, and his lady Marchioness, 25, landed at Manhattan last week, because he is a stockbroker and she is a portrait painter. He will study U. S. financiers in action. She will paint their wives in repose...