Word: self-portraits
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...foreign field of the written word is extraordinary. Letters to a friend -to a mistress-sharp, vivid, merry, little incidents-characterizations of people, of places as clean and telling as if they were cut on a copper plate-a startling potpourri of wit, vigor, irony, tragedy, acute observation - self-portrait of Marichaud himself that ranks among the few convincing descriptions of genius in recent fiction-all these jostle each other with all the inconsecutiveness of life itself in the pages of The Grand Tour. Beluga caviar for the appreciative, a discriminating and active talent experimenting successfully in an unusual medium...
...should choose the works of art to which they are entitled. Thirty of them have now made their selections. Richard T. Crane, Jr., Chicago millionaire, led the field, and, with his pick of 114 intriguing oils and bronzes, carried off John Singer Sargent's contribution, Artist Sketching, a small self-portrait in a milieu of forest, valued at $5,000. The Sargent is inconspicuous, but the old masterful brushwork, heritage from Hals and Velasquez, is unmistakably there. George Eastman, the Rochester Kodak man and greatest musical bene- factor of his time, selected Gardner Symons' Winter Twilight. Edsel Ford, heir apparent...
...stand out, Henry Lee McFee, with his solid and colorful Portrait of a Painter; Andrew Dasburg, with a landscape of New Mexico pueblos; George Bellows, with a group of striking drawings and lithographs; Charles Rosen, with a geometric landscape; Lucile Blanch, with a still life ; Henry Mattson, with a self-portrait; Ernest Fiene, with a portrait; and with Alfeo Faggi, with impressive sculptures, are perhaps most deserving of mention. The exhibition is notable for the high average of its achievement, representing as it does the almost unselected work of an entire community...