Word: self-portraits
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...horn of wind sweeps in from the darkened horizon. On its first showing in an exhibition arranged by jovial William Allen White, onetime Governor Henry J. Allen's wife deplored: "Cyclones . . . are certainly to be found in Kansas, but why must Mr. Curry paint these freakish subjects? His self-portrait shows . . . a boyhood that has only seen the most sordid conditions of life...
...wind marches across the darkened prairie. Said Elsie J. Nuzman Allen, art-collecting wife of Kansas' onetime Governor Henry Justin Allen: ". . . Cyclones, gospel trains, the medicine man, the man hunt, are certainly to be found in Kansas but why must Mr. Curry paint these freakish subjects? His self-portrait shows . . . a boyhood that has only seen the most sordid conditions of life . . . [not] the glories of his home State, the beauties of the simple life of the farmers. I wonder whether this is not just a phase through which he will pass and will soon come to see something...
...Letter," shown in the Paris Salon of 1882, they held a dinner, presented him with a gold medal and turned over their gallery to a memorial exhibition of his work. Last week they draped the door in black and tacked gold palm leaves to the frame of his self-portrait. Gari Melchers had died suddenly at his Virginia country place, of heart failure...
...history will be described largely by the efforts of two hard-working Germans: Conductor Theodore Thomas and Conductor Frederick Stock. Theodore Thomas, the Orchestra's founder, is commemorated by a tablet in Grant Park across the street from Orchestra Hall. Conductor Stock, Thomas' successor, presented A Musical Self-Portrait last week on what may prove to have been the Orchestra's next-to-last program...
Within is a jumble of objets d'art?an early self-portrait of Goya, a Volk head of Lincoln on its original base, a Rembrandt, a Pompeiian head, a fireplace which once belonged to James Russell Lowell, Gothic stained glass windows. No framed cartoons, even of "Abie," are visible...