Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank Billings Kellogg was caught last week by London newsgatherers between the studio of Philip Alexius Laszlo de Lombos, who is painting a Kellogg portrait to hang in the State Department at Washington, and a golf course. Said Mr. Kellogg: "I said almost everything one could say in regard to international peace during my term as Secretary of State. . . . As one of the authors of the Peace Pact, I should not talk about it, but I feel satisfied that it made a great impression throughout the world...
...went a 14 ¼-pound Penobscot salmon, carefully packed in ice and moss. What made this salmon different: It was the first caught upon the opening of the Bangor Pool. Presidential salmon-catcher: Horace W. Chapman of Bangor. ¶ Mrs. Hoover sat, last week, for her first First Lady portrait in oils, to Artist David Cleeland of Manhattan, commissioned by TIME, The Weekly Newsmagazine...
...Harriet Whitney Frishmuth's tender and charming studies of adolescence; Jacob Epstein's mottled, vigorous countenances; Paul Manship's images of swift, hound-escorted Diana and Actacon. Many are the stimuli for the senses, but nowhere is the mind so provoked and fascinated as before the portrait sculpture of Jo Davidson. Master of men and millions, the face of John Davison Rockefeller is anxious, unbelievably seamed above his sparse and fragile body. Mistress of precious intellection and writer of what seems gibberish to most readers, Gertrude Stein is shown with a face rugged, calm, confident above...
...Fisher had bought a painting, with extraordinary results. It was a portrait of the Duchess-Countess of Sutherland, supposedly executed by George Romney in 1782 when the chaste, ringleted subject was only 17. Brother Lawrence paid the Howard Young Galleries of Manhattan about $200,000 for the canvas...
...present Duke of Sutherland, lazying at Lausanne, saw a photograph of the portrait in the Sun, with a report of its presence in the U. S. For a moment the Duke wondered if he was bemused. But there could be no doubt that his pictured ancestress remained as she had for years, at his country home in Guildford, England. He so informed...