Word: self-portrait
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...entrance to the room there is a self-portrait of Hence Sintenic, a contemporary sculptor, who is the only woman ever to be admitted to the German Academy...
...collectors atop a smelter. Below are a sculptor (Ralph Stackpole) and his assistants at work. Below these are machinists. In the upper right panel, an airplane flies above a group of toiling sleelworkers. Below is an architect's drafting room. Directly below Rivera's self-portrait, talking over the work in progress, stands a group of three. Buttonholed between Timothy Pflueger and Arthur Brown Jr. (architects) is the donor of the fresco. William L. Gerstle. A modest little man in a derby hat. Mr. Gerstle appears to be awaiting the news that the architects have not been able...
...portraits arrived in custody of astute Gabriel Wells, who vies for newspaper space with Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach as premier U. S. rare-book seller. One was a self-portrait, one was of Mrs. Sarah E. Shelton, traditionally Poe's inspiration for "Annabel Lee." The third was of his tragic child-wife, Virginia Clemm, who died in a garret of misery and malnutrition, with a purring cat on her stomach to keep her warm. All three were signed, but Poe who wrote with the careful legible hand of a pre-typewriter newspaper man, had one of the easiest...
...years since her death it has lain neglected in a safe-deposit vault, some of the papers found only recently in an old clothes hamper. It is with the support of this important collection that Authors Hum and Root have undertaken to deface Wagner's self-portrait, creating in its stead one of a mean, unscrupulous, supremely arrogant person; one which comes as no surprise to the unprejudiced Wagnerian. In so doing they point darkly at the dying lady at Bayreuth, accuse her of influencing Wagner, even of distorting facts herself for the sake of proving Minna a shrewish...
Artist Woolf looks a little older but just as alert as his self-portrait (see above). Born 50 years ago in Manhattan, he was named, by parents who loved literature, after the great Dr. Johnson. He went to the College of the City of New York (1899) and, like most Manhattanites who relish pencil and brush, studied at the National Academy of Design, The Art Students' League. In 1904 he married; he has two daughters. For a long time he did oil portraits, exhibiting widely, winning academic honors. But, says he, "I had to commercialize my art by pleasing aunts...