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...study of his young daughter posed between his mother and his aunt. This won the Gold Medal at the Pennsylvania Academy (Philadelphia) in 1921, the first prize at the Carnegie Institute's International Exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1922. In the latter year, his picture Nude Girl with a Shawl, provoked a long and animated controversy between artists and moralists when it was exhibited at the National Arts Club. Last season, his contribution to the New Society of Artists' Manhattan Exhibition-a rude, graphic painting of the Crucifixion-attracted great attention, as did the recent picture he sent...
...Bandolero. Bandits and bullfights all wound round with a shawl of Spanish atmosphere make a good start. In the detail and fineness of photography, the pace is excellently maintained. Overcomplication of narrative with divided interest between the bullfight hero and the bandit hero check the proceedings slightly. Bullfight hero's father has murdered bandit hero's wife. Bandit hero accordingly objects seriously to marriage between his daughter (Renee Adoree), and bullfight hero. The horns of the dilemma shift to the horns of the bull. Bull gores bullfight hero. Daughter weeps and bandit hero cannot bear that. Happiness...
...Fine Arts. Of Quaker descent, his preoccupation has always been with beautiful surfaces, in landscapes, women, old furniture, centuries. A symposium of critics last year voted him America's most important novelist. His works include Mountain Blood, Three Black Pennys, Java Head, The Happy End, Cytherea, The Bright Shawl...
...President stood smiling beside Mrs. Coolidge under a large oak near the South Portico of the White House and welcomed 1,600 guests, including three long paragraphs of prominent names, who came to the first of three Executive garden parties. Mrs. Coolidge wore tan chiffon and a bright shawl, and food was distributed from tables in scattered red-and-white striped marquees...
...addition to the prize winning paintings at the International Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute (TIME, May 5), intense interest has been excited among distinguished visitors to the show by three portraits: Miss Margaret Kahri? by Ignacio Zuloaga depicts the American girl in a Spanish costume and shawl against one of those haunting landscapes used as backgrounds by this artist. Portrait of My Mother by Malcolm Purcell shows a filial tenderness somewhat reminiscent of Whistler's famous portrait of his mother in its pose and lighting, although Purcell has used a landscape background for this interior subject. Sir William Orpen...