Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...royal client. George V, by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India and so forth, has finally taken a good look at himself as others see him and is evidently ill pleased at the spectacle. The royal portrait by Charles Simms, R.A., which was recently exhibited in New York has been withdrawn from the Royal Academy by official request from Buckingham Palace...
...whose request was the portrait of King George by Charles Sims, R. A., removed from the Royal Academy?" asked many who saw this masterpiece of satiric elegance exhibited in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 26). Said Artist Sims who arrived in the U. S. last week: "My picture of the King, having been in the Academy for some 14 months, during which period there was not, so far as I know, any objection to it on the part of any one, was withdrawn by me at the wish of his Majesty expressed to Sir Frank Dicksee, President of the Academy, who communicated...
...deserted-an orchestra crooning overhead-and a great crowd of women seizing catalogs surged ahead into the east wing of the Art Institute in Chicago to the opening of the 38th annual exhibit of American painting and sculpture. On the walls of the great chain of rooms hung 110 portrait and figure pieces, 91 landscapes, 18 marines, 16 still life paintings, and here and there on pedestals were scattered 58 pieces of sculpture-exhibits chosen from 1,200 items submitted. The women surged about...
...Logan medal and $1,500 for his statue Unfettered quite a different piece of work from his statue of "A Fat Lady Hailing a Bus" butt of wits and columnists, which stands outside the museum and was made to order of a park board. Leopold Seyfert with a self portrait took another medal and $1,000. There were two posthumous Sargents, a goodly number of paintings from the artist colony at Taos, N. M. "A very good exhibit," said critics, "but nothing marvelous...
...Ancestor" Sargent called the portrait, recognizing in Ribblesdale's magnificent physical presence, his fastidious dress, and in the whole temper of his mind, those qualities which legend has conferred upon the peers of England. Traces of an older generation survived in his speech and in his clothes,- hard grainy phrases, grandiloquent flights of formal gallantry, puffing stocks, deep collars, square top hats. He was a celebrated boxer! People said that he could knock out any man in the House of Lords. Once he sat next to Charles Parnell in a railway carriage and, for the only time...