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Until the end of May, visitors to the Louvre will have the chance of a lifetime to taste the cream of three centuries of English talent. The paintings begin with Hogarth's famed Shrimp Girl and end with the soundly inspired work of Genre-Painter Walter Sickert, Landscapist Philip Wilson Steer, Portraitist Augustus John. Nothing controversial, nothing new mars the orderly display of masterwork. But in Reynolds' and Gainsborough's stately figures, Constable's English clouds and countryside, Turner's light, Blake's line and Rossetti's pattern, most Frenchmen last week found...
...figures. Year ago the British Medical Association moved out of the building and the Government of Southern Rhodesia moved in. Immediately Rhodesian High Commissioner Stephen Martin Lanigan O'Keeffe tried to have the statues removed, to the rage of Sculptor Epstein and esthetes in general. Artist Richard Sickert resigned from the Royal Academy because that solemn body refused to sponsor a public appeal for the statues' preservation, and with all the hullabaloo the move to oust the statues was quietly dropped...
Henry Varnum Poor is a snub-nosed husky, dark from the sun. He was born in Kansas in 1888, attended Stanford University, studied painting at the Slade School and with Walter Sickert in London, and at the Julian Academy in Paris. After painting for several years, he found himself distressed by "the devitalizing isolation of the studio." Believing that modern art naturally tends to enhance utilitarian objects, Painter Poor became Potter Poor. He has now thoroughly infused his art with mundane strength. From shaping delicate urns and saucers, he turns cheerfully to designing a series of mosaic tiles...