Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Genre painting means a style or subject matter dealing realistically with scenes of everyday life. That was all the 171 exhibits in the Whitney Museum had in common. Emotionally pictures varied from the sentimental Girl and Pets, by the mid-Victorian Eastman Johnson, to a blunt garish study of U. S. sailors tousling trollops on a park bench, painted in 1933 by Paul Cadmus (TIME, April 30; May 28). The New York American's venerable Critic Malcolm Vaughan was so pleased by all he saw that he wrote...
...fill the vacancy left by Dr. Roger I. Lee '01. Before his appointment he had served in many prominent medical positions all over the world. Most important amongst these were deputy commissioner of the American Red Cross in Switzerland in 1918 and 1919, and founder of the Royal Victorian Order of Nurses in Canada in commemoration of the Queen's Jubilee...
...probably undergoing our tragic experience this very hour. Mr. Alexander Graham Bell did invent a gadget known as a telephone and some enthusiastic disciple actually found that extensions were feasible, cheap and quite satisfactory. Surely, the installation of one in the ward would not clash too much with the Victorian setting...
That the mansion, Compton Place near Brighton, has even one bathroom is amazing considering the early Victorian tastes of the Duke of Devonshire who has called such modernities as motor cars "foul, stinking things, horrible brutes making life hideous!" On a recent visit to London, His Grace congratulated himself that "I was able to find a hansom...
Philip Johnson, whose province is interior decoration, described the "functional modern approach" of his art, which is now governed almost despotically by the principle of utility. That principle needed to be evoked after the clutteration of the mid-Victorian home. We shall never experience the dubious joy of accumulating useless and ornamental junk. In fact, Miss Catherine Bauer, whose article deals with houses and cities, has no doubts about the passing of the self-contained, isolated home, man's castle, and she is all for communal housing. To the romantic the apartment house is of course far from desirable...