Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Renoir devoted study after study to catching the play of sunlight over the gay dresses of his models and the boaters of his friends. Degas, with a draftsman's colder eye, made the backstage world of ballet dancers and the artificial world of footlights into a private universe. Pissarro, who conscientiously tried his hand at each new style, set his easel up in the French countryside, gave even the meanest farm a nobility and poetry. Van Gogh took the same subject, extended his sensibilities to achieve a kind of ecstatic identification with the countryside's own windswept rhythms...
...famed nude Olympia for the nation. Accepted in 1890 after heated argument, Olympia was hung in the Luxembourg Palace, then the waiting room for the main Louvre collection. In 1894 the painter Gustave Caillebotte bequeathed the nation 67 prize impressionist paintings, had 38 grudgingly accepted for the Luxembourg, including Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette, Pissarro's Red Roofs. By 1911, opinion had swung round so completely that when Count Isaac de Camondo willed the Louvre 56 impressionist paintings (including Degas' Foyer de la Danse, Manet's The Fifer), they were accepted unanimously...
Locke's husband views the masterpiece she will wear to her job as secretary in an advertising office, he says: "Some day you ought to sign it, like Renoir or Picasso." Honeyed Promises. In millions of homes across the U.S. last week, millions of women celebrated similar rites in great er or lesser degree, intent on enhancing nature's boon or correcting its defects...
...will have less than one-tenth the staff (33 v. 350) but three times as much leisure. Worcester's jewel-box museum, the best of its size in the country, with a choice selection of objects and paintings ranging from a 3,000 B.C. Sumerian stone figure to Renoir, Cézanne and Picasso, will give Rich professional pride and satisfaction, plus the chance to work more closely with the community. He will be free to do his own research and "some polemic writing," notably on the need to show U.S. art abroad. He will also have three months...
...grew rich by learning fast and backing his opinions stubbornly, Jim Hill began buying paintings when he was 43, rapidly moved from sentimental genre pictures to the bucolic moodiness of France's Barbizon School and the summery scenes of Corot, in time learned to like Monet and Renoir. Among Hill's favorites were the rousing historical scenes of the great 19th century French Romantic, Eugene Delacroix, including The Algerian Combat.* Hill's own sound maxim, discovered early: good art drives out bad. In his last years, while the townspeople along "Jim Hill's main line" variously...