Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fine optimism pervades this symposium (only Stuart Chase is unqualifiedly pessimistic: he analyzes the passivity of fun?listening to radio instead of doing amateur singing, fiddling), but the optimism is qualified with a recognition of arrant abuses, grave dangers. Thus, the Webbs on Labor, McBain on Law and Government, Winslow on Health, Dorsey on Race, James Harvey Robinson on Religion, Lewis Mumford...
...recorded that the color of George Washington's eyes was a light, greyish blue. But when painting his famous portraits of him, Gilbert Stuart made them a deeper blue...
...Stuart did so in anticipation of the fading of his paints. Amazingly, his paints did not fade. The fact is recalled by the sedate Boston Transcript, to whose readers a current centennial exhibition of Stuart's portraits is a matter of more than passing interest...
Bostonians were equally interested just after Artist Stuart's death in 1828 when a possibly larger exhibition was held there on behalf of impoverished Mrs. Stuart and her four daughters. Having painted more than a thousand portraits, including the first five Presidents...
European monarchs, Stuart died almost penniless...