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...friends. The apartment also served as his mother's dressmaking shop; it was constantly alive with seamstresses and customers exchanging confidences about fittings, and cluttered with bolts of satins and silks, ribbons and pattern snippings. In this homely setting, Vuillard, who derisively referred to himself as "the in-timist," fashioned vignettes of quiet domesticity that suggest a less radiant, fin de siècle Vermeer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: The Quiet Observer | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

...World War I, a group of us followed the verger through the vast spaces of St. Paul's. When someone mentioned the Gloomy Dean, the verger said firmly: "'E hain't the Gloomy Dean; 'e's the sad hop-timist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1953 | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

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