Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Humanities 2 and Economics 1 retain their traditional top standings in the undergraduate rating of the most popular spring courses, according to this term's enrollment figures released yesterday by Registrar Sargent Kennedy...
According to Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar of the College, 20 students are graduating at mid-year. Offsetting this figure, 50 students are returning to Cambridge after "leaves of absence." The customary drop-out because of academic, financial, and disciplinary problems, however, appreciably lower the not increase in undergraduate population...
...three expatriates on show, Sargent rose highest in his lifetime and fell farthest afterwards. Some of his paintings at Chicago, such as the vibrant portrait of Mile. Suzanne Poirson and the elegantly sexy Egyptian Girl (see spread), will surprise those who have come to regard him as a mere Cecil Beaton of the paintbrush. He had more dash than genius, yet in his best moments the portly, full-bearded conservative stood among the immortals...
...rich, aristocratic Pennsylvanian, she spent almost all her adult life laboring at her profession in Paris. Though she hobnobbed with the impressionists, the tall spinster never painted a landscape. People offered more of a challenge, she felt. Cassatt was an austere sort alto gether; she once turned John Singer Sargent from her door because he had done such a "dreadful portrait" of her brother Alex...
Says Curator Sweet of the three expatriates: "Whistler developed a style almost entirely his own-a kind of impressionism quite different from the French. Sargent followed European portrait traditions, but he did it better than the Europeans; he had an American enthusiasm and directness. Mary Cassatt was very vigorous and stimulating, and I think the French artists of the time were aware of it." All in all, Sweet concludes, the three brought more to European art than they gained from...