Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This period has seen no painter with such a brave conceit. Some critics have thought that John Singer Sargent might have had it, but evidently he did not, for his paintings have begun to decay. Not noticeablyless. Sargent had a way of using bitumen and laying thin pigments on heavier ones; he painted as carelessly as if his masterpieces were no more than the facile originals for magazine covers or cigaret advertisements...
...same day the Reinhardt Galleries announced that they had just sold Mr. Sargent's portrait of Princess Demidov to Mrs. Edward D. Libbey, widow of the Toledo glass manufacturer...
...London, the Royal Academy exhibition of Sargent's work opened at Burlington House. U. S. tourists pointed their noses and their pencils at painting after painting, eager to point out the superiority of those borrowed from the U. S. to those owned in England. But alas, although 615 paintings were hung, not a single one came from the U. S. "Why not?" tourists asked indignantly. "Why do you go out of your way to ignore the superb U. S. collections...
...Because," answered W. R. M. Lamb, Secretary of the Academy, "we knew that the Sargent exhibition in Boston* would make it impossible for us to borrow any large number of works in possession of American owners. There are 300 in that exhibition, but it hasn't so many oils as we have. An American friend of Sargent who has seen the collection here remarked on its magnificent brightness, which makes the American Sargents look drab. That's because we have brilliant uniforms and brilliant ceremonies...
...Justices of the Supreme Court and subordinate judges, Senators and Representatives, officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service, Coast and Geodetic Survey, patriotic organizations and plain citizens to the number of 3,130.* Secretary of Labor and Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Sargent were the only members of the Cabinet circle not present. In slightly more than three hours the ordeal of the President and his lady was past...