Word: rowlandson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When undergraduate Widener was with the Hasty Pudding Club he became interested in the costumes of various literary periods. Partly because of a collector's curiosity, partly because he wanted his costumes very accurate, he built up a surprisingly good collection of colored plates of costumes by Cruikshank and Rowlandson...
...drawing," he said, may "temporarily reduce the fine arts to a dust heap." Established Revolutionaries. Actually, Sir Kenneth and his council panel have kept a pretty fair balance between new & old. Their program has included makes tions of Picasso ceramics and "Young Contemporaries," but also shows of Rem brandt, Rowlandson and even needlework...
...crinolined cocotte. As a war correspondent in the Crimea, he turned out sheaves of detailed drawings of battles and camp life. As a Parisian artist-about-town, he caught the elegant manners and shady morals of his contemporaries. Although he lacked Daumier's satiric bite and Rowlandson's ribald bounce, Guys's quick eye and facile technique made him one of Europe's ablest 19th century reporters. Last week, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth, some of the best of Guys's reporting was on display in a Paris gallery...