Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHICAGO, business capital of the Midwest, is each year becoming more of a cultural center as well. Next week the Chicago Art Institute will stage a show unrivaled among the new year's exhibitions for size and sophistication: 120 pictures by three extraordinary American expatriates-John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt and James McNeill Whistler. All three made their fame in the Victorian and Edwardian eras; after their deaths, the reputations of all three declined. Perhaps because they were restless folk, who elected to live abroad, none of the three ever quite matched the greatness of their deep-rooted contemporaries...
John Singer Sargent, standing at the easel in his studio on London's Tite Street, used to mutter, "Gainsborough would have done it!" But in his heart he knew he was no Gainsborough. What Sargent had in abundance was a capacity for flattering his sitters in paint, and naturally they flocked to him. He complained that "portrait painting is a pimp's profession," and late in life he swore off it. "No more paughtraits," he wrote triumphantly to a friend. "I abhor and abjure them and hope never to do another, especially of the Upper Classes...
...Indian blood, Tom Gilcrease set out to assemble a monument to the American past, and over the years collected examples of the best works of the painters of the U.S. frontier: George Catlin, Frederic Remington, Charles Russell and some 250 others. He also bought masterpieces by Homer, Whistler and Sargent, and a collection of pre-Columbian gold work. Among his 70,000 books and manuscripts are a copy of the Declaration of Independence signed by Benjamin Franklin, the first letter ever written from the New World to the Old (by Christopher's son Diego Columbus), the original...
...Robert H. Dean (Capt.), Richard D. Elwell, Lindsay E. Fischer, Richard E. Fischer, Harry P. Gelles, Alex H. Haegler, Francis S. Holmes, Edmund Jacobson, Jr., William Ezra Lingelback III, Dennis G. Little, Robert A. Lloyd, Rustin C. McIntosh, Charles A. Platt, Juan M. Rodrigues, David C. Rogers, Hugh A. Sargent, Stephen J. Szaraz, Godfrey Truslow, Marvin Weiss, John S. Whiting, David S. Wise, Arthur D. Levin...
...Hugh Sargent and Juan Rodriguez handled the fullback positions until the second Yale goal. Rodriguez saved one goal with a beautiful defensive butt when Briggs was out of position. But he and Sargent were no match for the Yale forwards who continually broke through for shots at Briggs and Fischer...