Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fogg Art Museum opened a new display last Saturday, the most interesting paintings being a collection of watercolors by Homer and Sargent. A valuable Sixteenth Century tapestry depicting Hercules against a verdure background, the gift of Augustus Hemenway '75, has been hung in the great hall. This tapestry is particularly good in design and distinct in color...
...With Secretary of State Kellogg, the President conferred about a note to France and England touching on their new, secret naval agreement. ¶. William J. Donovan, assistant to Attorney General Sargent, went respectfully to the President to announce that he had persuaded Dutch, British and other monopolists of quinine not to restrain their U. S. trade (see p. 39). ¶ Rob Roy, seven, President Coolidge's white collie, and personal pet, died in Walter Reed hospital. Prudence Prim, Rob Roy's companion, died last summer in the Black Hills...
William J. Donovan, assistant to U. S. Attorney General Sargent and intimate friend of Nominee Hoover, hastened to the White House to tell President Coolidge the news so good to U. S. businessmen, chemists, doctors...
...cover will be slightly lighter in color so that the type will show more clearly. The picture of President Lowell which formed the frontispiece has been replaced by a copy of the Sargent portrait of President Lowell...
Because no person will agree with another person's view of him, few persons are satisfied with their portraits. John Davison Rockefeller expressed delight at seeing Sargent's portrait of him but Calvin Coolidge, when he had been painted by Philip Lazlo, sent for the artist to come and finish one of his hands. What emotions of embarrassment, scorn, amusement and despair Painter Lazlo must have concealed in the letter which he addressed to the President to inform him that the hand was finished...