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...past half-decade, Cornwell has been investigating the true identity of Jack the Ripper, the legendary criminal who gruesomely killed five prostitutes in Whitechapel, England in 1888. She has pledged 82 works by Impressionist artist Walter Sickert, whom she claims was the real “Jack the Ripper,” to Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum...
...works include 24 paintings, 36 prints, and 22 drawings by Sickert, who was born in England in 1860 and was a pupil of James McNeill Whistler and Edgar Degas...
...she’s bringing him to the Fogg. For the past half-decade, Cornwell has been investigating the true identity of Jack the Ripper, the legendary criminal who gruesomely killed five prostitutes in Whitechapel, England in 1888. She has pledged 82 works by Impressionist artist Walter Sickert, whom she claims was the real “Jack the Ripper,” to Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum. The 82 works include 24 paintings, 36 prints, and 22 drawings by Sickert, who was born in England in 1860 and was a pupil of James McNeill Whistler...
British painter Walter Sickert reveled in ordinary subjects...
Working from photographs -- whether specially taken for the painting or clipped from the press -- produced some of Sickert's most engrossing images. Among them are his 1929 portrait of the novelist Hugh Walpole and The Miner, circa 1935: a man just out of the pit, fiercely kissing his wife, an abrupt and passionate painting imbued with sooty grain that reminds one of late Goya. Photographs also enabled Sickert to produce, in 1936, what is probably the last portrait of a British royal personage that can claim serious aesthetic merit: Edward VIII, emerging from a limousine, clutching his black fur busby...