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...Book With more painted yardage of canvas than any country in the world, the U.S. now possesses 123 of Cézanne's 1,155 oil paintings; 52 of El Greco's 115; 18 of Vermeer's 37; 83 of Gainsborough's 300; 34 of Velasquez' 92; 143 of Rembrandt's 988; 87 of Romney's 429; 106 of Van Dyck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Big Book | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...exhibition of great art, the show was worth many times the price of admission (50?). On the somber, dignified Duveen walls were spread 15 Rembrandts, 15 of the finest of Frans Hals's broad-brushed portraits, Vermeer Van Delft's world-famed $500,000 The Milkmaid (see cut), meticulous landscapes, still lifes and street scenes by Hobbema, Jan Steen, Nicolaes Maes and dozens of minor masters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dutch Treat | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

Saks Fifth Avenue (head designer, Sophie): much ado over Sophie's "plastic seaming," and adaptation of Alix and Vionnet's tiny seams and gores which give a gown a poured-on look; a fitted hiplength, fur-edged jacket after Vermeer; men's tie silk for formal dinner gowns; men's sleeve lining for suit blouses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: Gowns by the U. S. | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...collection of Italian art, one of the largest and most comprehensive in the U. S.; 2) a gallery of nine over-average Rembrandts; 3) a bevy of British mantelpiece portraits, including Sir Joshua Reynolds' famed $500,000 portrait of Lady Elizabeth Compton; 4) top-flight pictures by Dutchmen Vermeer and Frans Hals, Flemings van Eyck, Memling, Rubens and van Dyck. Conservative by present-day museum standards, the Gallery is long on portraiture, short on Spanish art, entirely lacking in important French works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: American Louvre | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...restless, wasp-waisted artist with his whimsical mustache and eyes of an old crystal-gazer declared last week that for him the period of Surrealist dream-documentation was about over, the period of Paranoiac painting just beginning. Example: The Image Disappears, a painting which is at once a Vermeer-like Young Girl Reading a Letter, and a beady-eyed portrait of a bearded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dreams, Paranoiac | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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