Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Singer Sargent was among 3,000 men and women who attended Varnishing Day at the art gallery in the Grand Central Terminal. His new canvas, The Chess Players, is the first picture to be donated to the season's drawing. His last year's canvas, Artist Sketching, became the property of a Chicago lay member after the Grand Central Galleries had refused a private offer...
...peration of the greatest artists and artisans in England to carry it out. The house is a miniature model of a completely furnished royal palace, eight feet high, and everything in it is on a scale of one inch to a foot. Thumbnail paintings by Orpen, Sargent, Lavery, Cope, Holliday, of the Academy; murals by Nicholson; decorations by Edmund Dulac; etchings by Stanley Anderson; a staircase by Frampton, the sculptor; miniature books, with hand-written extracts by over a hundred British authors, including an original play by Barrie; music specially composed by Dame Ethel Smyth and other great ones; replicas...
...June for the order in which they should choose the works of art to which they are entitled. Thirty of them have now made their selections. Richard T. Crane, Jr., Chicago millionaire, led the field, and, with his pick of 114 intriguing oils and bronzes, carried off John Singer Sargent's contribution, Artist Sketching, a small self-portrait in a milieu of forest, valued at $5,000. The Sargent is inconspicuous, but the old masterful brushwork, heritage from Hals and Velasquez, is unmistakably there. George Eastman, the Rochester Kodak man and greatest musical bene- factor of his time, selected Gardner...
Some of the contributing artists, including Sargent, are paying members of the Association as well. The landscape painters contribute two or three paintings outright as their share. The portraitists offer to paint portraits of members gratis. Miss Beaux, probably the most distinguished woman painter in America, stipulated that her sitter must be a man, and the lot fell upon Richard H. Webber, of Detroit...
...exposition contains 75 oil paintings and water colors by Sargent, 63 by Dodge MacKnight, 55 by Winslow Homer, 9 marble and 20 bronze busts by Paul Manship...