Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Medallions in memory of President Harding will be struck off by the Philadelphia Mint. On the obverse side will be a portrait of Mr. Harding; on the reverse the dates of his birth, inauguration and death. It will be ready about Sept. 1, cost $1.52, including case and postage...
Sorolla was an accomplished portrait painter, but his special eminence comes from his handling of sunlight and water in combination. His figure pieces at the seashore are full of flowing line, quivering color, spacious luminosity. Typifying these qualities are the fine group in the Metropolitan, including Swimmers, full-length nude boys seen through transparent green water; After the Bath, a young woman emerging from the sea in a clinging yellow bathing suit, while her swain stands behind, holding a white sheet in which to wrap her; Beaching the Boat, Valencia, peasant sailors guiding three yoke of brown oxen, dragging...
...choose the works of art to which they are entitled. Thirty of them have now made their selections. Richard T. Crane, Jr., Chicago millionaire, led the field, and, with his pick of 114 intriguing oils and bronzes, carried off John Singer Sargent's contribution, Artist Sketching, a small self-portrait in a milieu of forest, valued at $5,000. The Sargent is inconspicuous, but the old masterful brushwork, heritage from Hals and Velasquez, is unmistakably there. George Eastman, the Rochester Kodak man and greatest musical bene- factor of his time, selected Gardner Symons' Winter Twilight. Edsel Ford, heir apparent...
...Tate Gallery, London's famous storehouse of modern art, supplementing the old masters in the National, was offered by Lady Cunard, of the great shipping family, Sir John Lavery's portrait of his wife, one of the show pieces of last year's Royal Academy. The governing committee refused to accept it, and the pot boiled over. Lady Cunard submitted her resignation from the committee in a caustic letter with the rebuke: "One cannot permit an artist of Lavery's distinction and age to be insulted like that." Lady Lavery and Lady Cunard are both Americans...
...John, now in his 67th year, and an R.A. since 1896, has long ranked among the first portrait painters of the world. He is represented in many of the greatest public galleries of Europe and America, and some years ago had the one-man show at the Pittsburgh International. It is said that the Tate officials suggested that they would like to have one of his earlier productions, but Lavery said " No." The portrait of his wife has been rated by several of the best critics as a masterpiece. It is possible that the picture may come to the Metropolitan...