Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then Eisenhower and Churchill drove out through the blazing red azaleas of the National Arboretum to Walter Reed Army Hospital to visit former Army Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, gravely ill following two strokes, and former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. When Eisenhower pointed to an Eisenhower portrait of Churchill hanging on the wall of the presidential suite (occupied by Dulles), Old Painter Churchill said, "Very good, very good." Dulles asked Churchill to autograph a one-volume abridged copy of Churchill's war memoirs, "I would be honored," and Churchill did so. At times during the afternoon...
Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Memorable portrait of a wonderfully bizarre New Zealand schoolmarm with a passion for life and teaching...
This particular version of Mont Saint-Victoire just approaches being over-labored, a flaw to which Cezanne was susceptible. Nevertheless, he stopped in the nick of time. A living spontaneity illuminates this painting. For that matter, two small canvases, a portrait of the artist's son, and a bather, are fresher still and the more marvelous...
Spinster, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Memorable portrait of a wonderfully bizarre New Zealand schoolmarm with a passion for life and teaching...
Hans Holbein's first portrait of Henry VIII was a miniature, done in 1537 to win the King's good graces. Four hundred years later German Industrialist Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza bought the panel from Britain's Earl Spencer. Over loud protests from the London art world, he carried it off triumphantly to his villa on the Swiss side of Lake Lugano. Reproduced full-scale opposite, the picture smoothly reveals the great and terrible monarch in all his bejeweled, beplumed, begorged splendor. But Holbein at his most flattering could not help penetrating...