Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Singer Sargent long ago quit the portrait-painting game, as such. When he makes an exception to his rule, nowadays, the outcome is more than likely to be something compelling-and so may be characterized the presentment of President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, which at the moment is said to be nearing completion at the hands of Mr. Sargent...
This will be Sargent's third portrait of distinguished persons connected with Harvard-the other two being of Charles W. Eliot, done in 1907, and the late Henry Lee Higginson, 1903. All three are in Cambridge, and, added to the murals and other works of Sargent in the Public Library and elsewhere in Boston, give this master a preeminent representation...
...examples of sculpture on display. The most notable of the paintings are the costume designs of the Dramatic Club production, "The Liar," a fresco copy of the School of Botticelli, and cover designs for the Lampoon. There are also oil and water color landscapes, still life studies, and portrait drawings in several mediums...
...personal ambitions" or any plans to restore the Monarchy. He had come to sell $1,000,000 of jewels -some of which once belonged to Tsar Peter the Great, Catherine II, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He also intended to retrieve his two Rembrandts, A Portrait of a Man, A Portrait of a Woman, worth about $1,000,000, which he pledged to Joseph E. Widener of Philadelphia...
...print exhibit was also held at the Camera Club, Manhattan, by Dr. Theron W. Kilmer, a physician who specializes in portrait studies of uncommon types in this difficult medium. This exhibition will later tour...