Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whistler's professional "mission" was "revealing the Thames to the people who lived on it but had previously only seen it as a stretch of water." His avocation was what he called "the gentle art of making enemies." A lady who asked him if he thought a certain sketch indecent was told, "No, madam, but your question is." When one of his students who had painted a "red elbow with green shadows" argued, "I am sure I just paint what I see," the Master answered, "Ah, but the shock will come when you see what you paint...
...twenty-minute film sketch shuttles you through a series of students' rooms, Adams' panelled dinning hall, the Master's residence and the Radcliffe Quad. But the film is not merely a dry House travelogue; exhuberant students appear in almost every frame. Also Ivy has attempted to smooth its scene shifts with humorous plot sequences, but the transitions are still reminiscent of a newsreel...
...last week Diego had worked his way to the coat, and he painted right over the sketch of the Virgin as though it had never been there. He had been, as he loves to be, the center of a rousing controversy, punctuated by black, satisfying headlines. The incident was closed...
...story at just above the level of fashionable young folks' gossip and at something less than the depth of a good college bull session. Why the George Marsh generation is lost (if it is) is a question that is never really asked, much less answered. Author Phillips can sketch scenes of prep school, Harvard and Manhattan fast-set life that have pace and surface savvy. That is something, at 28; enough, anyway, to have turned the nodding heads of the Book-of-the-Month judges, John Marquand Sr. abstaining...
...Chandor painted the Prince of Wales (now Duke of Windsor), Queen Marie of Rumania, President Hoover and his Cabinet, President Roosevelt (in 1935 and again a month before his death), Eleanor Roosevelt (the only painting she ever permitted), Winston Churchill (bought by Bernard Baruch for $25,000, plus a sketch of the artist by the posing Churchill), Queen Elizabeth and some 300 others...