Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ruler. Sir John Lavery shows a large painting Premier Mac-Donald addressing the House of Commons in which the effect of political success on the Labor leader seems to have stamped him with an aristocratic Tory look. The atmosphere of the house is well reproduced, with a clever portrait of Lady Astor leaning far forward in her seat...
...effort has been to collect in Wilmington an exhibition representative of all parts of the U. S. The most conspicuous canvas is Warships on the Hudson by George Bellows. There is a Portrait by Eugene Speicher, American...
...painting of Mrs. Coolidge by Howard Chandler Christy, showing the first lady of the land in a wine-red velvet gown, with a white collie at her side, was presented Mrs. Coolidge by 800 members of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority, of which she is a member. The portrait was unveiled in the East Room of the White House...
...HUDSON: A PORTRAIT-Morley Roberts-Dutton ($5.00). A kaleidoscopic picture of the many-sided Hudson, done with honesty, humor and appreciativeness by his great and good friend. This is not a biography but a casually constructed group of stories and criticisms that merge into a coherent whole. Hudson stands, a hawklike, savage, difficult figure outlined in sweeping strokes against the background of a loveless marriage, drab boarding house surroundings, and fame that came too late for him 'to enjoy. His is the spirit of genius; he loved the windswept downs, the wild barren places, the creatures of the forest...
Augustus John (TIME, April 14) British portrait painter, arrived in Manhattan on the Aquitania on April 11. He refused to say anything about American painters, but admitted that America produced the finest modern architecture...