Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famous Wertheimer portraits by John Sargent, American, are once more the nine days' talk of London. Extremely unflattering, scrupulously accurate, they portray the immediate family of a distinguished English Jew, Asher Wertheimer. They were hung Jan. 8 in the National Gallery, and with the event John Sargent became a classic in his own lifetime. Now a strong group in the House of Commons seeks their removal...
...John Sargent is the only individual for whom the National Gallery has ever broken its rule against accepting the work of a living artist. Ihe gloomy, smoke-darkened pile facing Trafalgar Square and the Nelson Monument is as British an institution as Westminster Abbey. To be honored by either, artists have had wait for death...
...contest for sub-chairman of the board until May 7 when one of them will be given that position, and the other ten will become Red Book editors. The following men have been retained and will meet today at 1.05 o'clock in James Smith C 31: Ralph Sargent Bailey, of Wollaston; Whitney Cromwell of Mendham, N. J.; George Douglas Debevoise of New York City; Cornelius Du Bois, of Englewood, N. J.; Douglas Huntly Gordon, of Hartford. Conn.; Benry Wilder Keyes Jr., of North Haverhill, N. H.; James Carroll McDonald, of New York City; George Beeve Moynahan of Mattapan; Logan...
...with the largest sales gallery floor-space in the world (15,000 square feet), opened March 21. As most of the Press remarked, a new situation thence arises in the life of the commuter, whereby the race for the smoking car may be to the swift, but the Sargent to the slow...
Over 200 artist and lay members from all parts of the country make up the organization which backs the Gallery's undertaking. Artists include John Sargent, Joseph Pennell, Daniel Chester French; lay-members, Mrs. Joseph H. Choate, Dr. Richard C. Cabot, Julius Rosenwald, Potter Palmer...