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Word: sargents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family folk who want a portrait of husband, wife or child. By looking over Mmes. Shaw & Duplaix's samples, they can decide which artist is their dish. Prices range from $50 (for a drawing job by Portraitist Hester Merwin) to $7,000 (for a high-class likeness, John Sargent style, by famed Society Painter Charles Hopkinson). For each job it gets them, 460 Park Avenue charges its artists a 33⅓ % commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Portrait Agency | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...successor was Sargent Claude Johnson, 51, Boston-born quadroon who has won many a prize, is one of the best artists of the Negro race. Sculptor Johnson submitted a drawing to the Board of Education, the San Francisco Art Commission. Both asked for some changes, which he made. Then, at the suggestion of a WPA official who wanted to use up the remaining clay before it spoiled. Sculptor Johnson made a 31-ft. model. It showed thick-limbed athletes diving, throwing javelins, playing golf, leaping hurdles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Big Frieze | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

Mozart: Concerto in A Major for Clarinet and Orchestra (Reginald Kell. clarinet, with Dr. Malcolm Sargent conducting the London Philharmonic; Victor: 8 sides). Limpid tootling of superb melodies. Clarinetist Goodman (above), slated to play this work with the New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: November Records | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Lieutenant Colonel Henry D. Jay, Professor of Military Science and Tactics, will replace Major Chester A. Sargent as coach of the polo team during the coming season, it was learned yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAY TO COACH POLO TEAM | 9/20/1940 | See Source »

...Major Sargent, who has seen Harvard through some of its best years in polo, has been called to serve in the army. It was under his regime last spring that Harvard polo took its final step receiving its own polo field located in Dedham. This was the gift of W. Cameron Forbes '92, formor Governor General of the Philippines, and a great polo enthusiast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAY TO COACH POLO TEAM | 9/20/1940 | See Source »

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