Word: salons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meant much in the art world. Wounded in the Civil War, he went to Paris to recuperate and study art, spending most of his life thereafter in Europe. A pupil of the painstaking Jean Leon Gerome, Alexandre Cabanel and Edouard Frere, he became one of the most persistent of salon exhibitors. Between 1868 and 1895 Henry Bacon's name appears 25 times on the Beaux Arts lists, his canvases always being hung "on the line." Two of his pictures which became best sellers as steel engravings: The Boston Boys & General Gage, Little Bopeep...
...satisfactory. Not a year-round recluse, she often has brilliant friends to stay with her, and then the simple life blossoms out into cocktails, dinner parties, crackling conversation. After such an occasion, she admits with amusement, her Indian husband, who has spent the evening playing solitaire, refers to the salon as "flies buzzing...
Following up its first successful salon, held last fall, the Photographic Society is completing a week of "Snow Scenes" and "Portraiture" exhibits at the Fine Arts Guild in Brattle Square this week...
...summers of 1910 and 1911 Artist Chabas, who had been exhibiting with the Salon since 1885, spent by the chilly borders of Lake Annecy in the French Savoie, not far from Switzerland. Whenever the mornings were warm and clear enough, he would go down to the lake shore at 8:30 a. m. with his slender, blonde model. She would strip off her clothes, stand ankle deep in the icy water in a pose that the whole world knows. A slow meticulous worker, Artist Chabas would paint for only 30 minutes, then knock off until the next good morning. When...
...Photographic Society's second salon of the year will be held from March eighteenth to twenty-fourth, and will consist of a joint exhibition of Portraiture and snow scenes...