Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much as Gladstone might have voiced his Liberal compassion for India, Hirota continued: "All Japan wants is that China, taking a broad view of the situation, will collaborate with Japan for the fulfillment of the ideal of Sino-Japanese co-operation for the common prosperity and well-being of the two countries...
Serious U. S. landscape painting began with a Connecticut portraitist named Ralph Earl, one of whose clients paid him in 1800 to paint the view from his farm. The result. Looking East from Leicester Hills, was dim but sufficient evidence that the "U. S. Scene" was already discovered. Among Earl's successors...
...late Andrew Carnegie posterity owes the Carnegie Foundation, a corporate angel to education, and the Carnegie Institute, an international showcase of the arts. It also owes an illustrious tablecloth which went on view last week at the Museum of the City of New York. As far back as 1887 it had been the great steel-master's fancy to provide his distinguished dinner guests with a soft pencil and a fresh section of damask on which to write their signatures. The autographs were preserved by being embroidered. Among them: Joseph H. Choate, Mark Twain, Myron C. Taylor, Elihu Root...
...dozen drawings by Curry encouraged head-shaking by detractors. The healthy springiness and sweep of the artist's well-known Kansas pictures appeared only in an oil-and-tempera panel of a prancing, black Percheron stallion painted at the Wisconsin stock show a year ago. A landscape View of Madison painted last spring had an unaccustomed air of old-fashioned dewiness. A still life, Spring Flowers, had an even stranger touch of Renoir. For action subjects the artist had apparently confined himself to football games in Wisconsin's Camp Randall stadium producing a series of sketches...
...litterateur are his reminiscences on the great personalities he has known, and the friendships he has shared with them. He passes from a glimpse of Swinburne, through the Lawrences, Hardy, Campbell to Rupert Brooke, A. E. Housman, George Meredith, and many others. Of these men he gives a view not often shown, one of intimate association, if perhaps only for a short time. But always Squire comes away with the fruits of the acutest interpretation of the character of the man, and he transmits these into his work...