Word: raeburn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April shower broke one day in Manhattan, falling impartially on thousands, including Henry Edwards Huntington. To keep his white mustachios dry, portly "H.E." ducked into an art gallery. Before he ducked out again, he had been sold a Raeburn portrait. Thus impulsively, in 1908, began one of the world's great collecting careers...
...first six years after acquiring the Raeburn, Huntington spent $6,000,000. By his death in 1927, he had assembled the finest collection of 18th Century British portraits in the U.S. (among them: Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy). And his purchases of 100,000 rare books and 1,000,000 precious manuscripts made him, in Bibliophile A.S.W. Rosenbach's judgment, "without doubt the greatest collector of books the world has ever known." In the judgment of Englishmen who hated to see their treasures taken off, he was one of history's colossal despoilers...
...stroke of 12, the networks were combing the Midwest for late hour fill-ins. Some of the substitutions planned: Chris Cross (Denver) for Tommy Dorsey and Guy Lombardo; George Sterney (Cleveland) for Louis Armstrong; George Hamilton (St. Louis) for George Olsen and Leo Reisman; Boyd Raeburn (Chicago) for Tony Pastor...
Primitives & Preferences. Among the English paintings in the Providence show were familiar Raeburn, Romney, Reynolds and Gainsborough portraits in the grand manner. Also on view were works by a famed trio of 18th Century New Englanders: John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull - all of whom were influenced by English styles. But the surprise of the show was a group of little-known early American portraits, sound and penetrating studies by men who followed no tradition, who painted people as they saw them...