Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SHOW-OFF−One of the best comedies of this or any other season−a life-size pastel portrait of a gabby American at full blast...
Current Opinion, a U. S. magazine purporting to publish an accurate monthly news review, reproduced in its July issue the portrait of King George V which was exhibited by its creator, Charles Sims, at the Royal Academy, London, in May (TIME...
...Sims portrait shows Britain's monarch in full regalia, with sceptre and sword, seated on his throne. It idealizes and refines the not-unlined face. It gives His Majesty dainty, tapering legs. It makes the fingers, actually the short, muscular digits of a sport-loving country gentleman, appear long and willowy...
...face of such criticism (well-nigh unanimous), Current Opinion ignorantly entitled its reproduction: "The Most Human Royal Portrait Within Living Memory" (a phrase quoted from the critic of the Illustrated London News...
...inauguration, Major Coupal remained his personal physician. Major Coupal, by his new assignment, was relieved of his post as Curator of the Army Medical Museum. ¶ Max Sasanoff, until some months ago, was an inmate of the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta. Now he is in Washington to paint a portrait of President Coolidge. Sasanoff, a Russo-Italian by birth, early attained some reputation as a concert singer. He came to this country, fell in with counterfeiters, was apprehended, convicted, sentenced to Atlanta for three years. While in Atlanta, he attracted attention by painting in the penitentiary chapel a remarkable picture...