Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view were 1,500 works by 1,000 British artists. As a Coronation gesture the Central Hall was given over to official portraits of British kings from the Academy's first Royal patron George III by Sir Joshua Reynolds to George VI, with the screamingly noticeable exception of Edward VIII. The official portrait of George VI was by Simon Elwes, painted in the gaudy full-dress uniform of the 11th Hussars, called "Cherry Pickers" for their tight crimson breeches...
...only the great are painted by Britain's adept portraitists. Genteel humor has never been despised by the Royal Academy. Year ago Caricaturist George Belcher, who stalks about Chelsea in a large black hat and satin stock and who prefers char ladies and costermongers for models, made headlines at the Academy with a portrait of a fat man playing a cornet. Quick to repeat a good thing, he sent two similar portraits to this year's Burlington House. Best was Brother Fetch, a London commissionaire in full regalia of the Order of Buffaloes, elegantly curling his buffalo horn...
Nudes have never been rejected by the Royal Academy, but they have always had to be genteel nudes. Ablest figure in the Academy was Model Resting by David Jagger (see cut). Round this a small storm centred, not because the well-painted figure was nude, but because her toenails were polished crimson, a Continental touch that many critics felt to be un-British...
...attendance at the Royal Academy was disappointing, sales were not. Burlington House announced last week that sales during the first two weeks of the show were up $5,000 over the same period in 1936. Even the venerable president of the Academy, Sir William Llewellyn, G.C.V.O., got in the money by selling a cautious landscape...
England has its Royal Family, the U. S. its Constitution. Both have been much amended, even temporarily abrogated (though in the U. S. only partly). Which is the more sacred it would be difficult to say, but it would be harder to imagine England without its Royal Family than the U. S. without its Constitution. Last week, as in every week since President Roosevelt announced his intention of "revivifying" the Supreme Court, the Constitution was front-page news. In Washington and Philadelphia publicity-wise politicians were making capital of the grand old document's 150th anniversary. And last week...