Word: rodins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kolbe, Barlach, Lehmbruck are names as familiar to exhibition-goers as Maillol or Rodin. Lehmbruck, that strange, intense artist who committed suicide in 1919, is the creator of monumental figures, some calm and passive, others struggling against a malignant fate. Lehmbruck is essentially a worker in clay, a modeler, but with a rare sense of plastic form...
...nobody thinks to introduce him. As a result he has the unjustified obscurity of an oldster who is generally thought to have been dead a long time. He is in Mabel Dodge Luhan's memoirs and Arnold Bennett's diary. He knew Whistler, Degas, Cézanne, Rodin and Harold Nicolson. Henry James was his friend, as was Mallarmé, Thomas Hardy and King Edward VII. Blanche knew the originals of most of Proust's characters, and Proust wrote an introduction to one of his books. Although he has known almost every prominent French and English writer...
...when Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, paid regular visits incognito (with the whole town informed) to the villa of the Duchess Caracciolo. Later on Blanche knew the great houses of London, and pays an eloquent tribute to Mary Hunter, whose wit and beauty inspired Henry James, George Moore, Rodin, Sargent and himself. One of his stories about her gives the slightly archaic flavor of his worldly revelations, which sound like something out of Proust. When Rodin was working on a bust of Mary Hunter he praised her beauty, kissed her hand "a little too greedily." When she told Blanche...
Stieglitz had a right to his emotion, for he and Steichen together led the U. S. to take photography seriously before the War. At 23 Steichen. who had lived with Rodin in Paris and taken a famed, dramatic photograph of the sculptor, suggested and helped establish in 1902 Stieglitz's gallery at No. 291 Fifth Avenue. First U. S. showings of Rodin's sketches, in 1905, and Matisse's paintings, in 1908. were arranged for "291" by Steichen. Among the "Photo-Secessionists" who were then contributing to Stieglitz's magazine. Camera Work, Steichen did what...
...Bowman (see cut); designs and sketches by such famed Europeans as Christian Bérard, Mariette Lydis, Giorgio De Chirico, Andre Derain. Pablo Picasso, Georges Roualt, Léon Bakst; drawings made by Nijinsky in his Swiss sanatorium; masks from Africa and masks by W. T. Benda; sculpture by Rodin, sketches of Isadora Duncan by Abraham Walkowitz; photographs by top-flight Austrian, Swedish, French and U. S. photographers. The handsomely printed program announced for Dec. 12 an "Evening of Ballet" to include the three foremost U. S. companies, for Jan. 2 an "Evening of Modern Dance" contributed by Ruth...