Word: salons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This happened in 1911, when Leonardo's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Salon Carre of the Louvre...
...such silliness did not submerge the occasional excellence of the exhibition. Patterning after the Paris Salon des Independants in its opposition to tight orthodoxies, the Society of Independent Artists provides a more exciting display than conservative bodies like the National Academy. Such reputable painters as John Taylor Arms, Pop Hart, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, Walter Pach. John Sloan (president of the Society) and Claggett Wilson were represented. Among other memorable contributions were Olive Rush's delicate water colors, tonal hints of New Mexican scene and character. Rudolph Tandler showed a briskly drawn and water-colored lighthouse. Attuned to the Moon...
Ladies who in the past have presided over brilliant salons are Mme. du Barry, Mme. de Staël and the author of this book. The salon was fast becoming a lost art when Mrs. Draper staged her revival, substituted garish Bohemian cushions for frail gilt chairs, substituted brusque moderns for précieux. In "memories of a world that has passed" she reconstructs her London music room; then peoples it with musicians-Thibaud, Rubinstein, Ysaye-and with listeners- James, Sargent, Norman Douglas. Of each she makes a shrewd, if flattering, portrait. Of Henry James she threatens to write...
Writer Stein is a doughty Pennsylvanian of 55 who has lived in Paris for 20 years, writing, experimenting, playing hostess to scores of queer artistic folk who, with herself, have made her salon famed. Among her books are Three Lives, The Making of Americans, Geography and Plays, A Birthday Book, As a Wife Has a Cow, Tender Buttons. Her letter head carries a figure like a fleur de Us and underneath "It's a rose, it's a rose, it's a rose." A large rose gob is her seal. She is a sister of Leo Stein...
...Leon Toral, a dynamite bomb was exploded under the locomotive of the special train of Mexico's provisional president, Sefior Emilio Portes Gil (TIME, Dec. 10). The engine was derailed, one fireman was killed, and two coaches left the track. President Portes Gil descended unhurt from his salon car, walked forward to the locomotive, shrugged his broad shoulders and remarked: "The revolution star is in luck...