Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HARVARD MASS. AGRICULTURAL Clark, c.f. 3b., Gifford Gordon, l.f. r.f., Sargent Jenkins, s.s. c.f., Cahill Owen, 1b. 1b., Marshman Hammond, 2b. l.f., Gordon F. S. Hill 3b. s.s., Smiley Thayer, r.f. 2b., Smith Larrabee, c. c., Barrows Hill, Spalding or Cordingly, p. p., Holley...
...John Sargent whose unkind portraits of the Wertheimers have created a pseudopolitical issue...
...Troy's beauty, it is more often glowingly mentioned than accurately described. But three things might be said of it: it is technically practically flawless; it has beauty of color and vigorous line achieved with the fewest possible strokes; occasionally it fails in insight in spite of Sargent's far-famed "ability to render character." He is a marvelous ob- server of externals and sometimes- but not always-of inner truths about his sitters...
...critics are widely divided about the excellence of the Wertheimer portraits. One-Homer St. Gaudens- thinks them Sargent at his best. He also considers Sargent to be the greatest painter in England today...
...whatever the final fate of the disputed portraits, Sargent's position in the National Gallery is secure. The gallery hung-several years ago-his fine portrait of Lord Ribblesdale. Sargent, 'in his middle sixties, has become an "old master." Without dying, he has joined Reynolds, Romney, Raeburn as an " immortal British...