Word: whistlerisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...select roster of its membership Luigi Lucioni, Eugene Speicher, Guy Pene du Bois, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh rank with Gilbert Stuart, George Inness, Winslow Homer, Albert P. Ryder, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent. (Grant Wood and Thomas Benton have never been invited; neither was James McNeill Whistler...
Name of a new song by Bert Stevens and Larry Wagner: Whistler's Mother-in-Law. Name of a recent Hollywood composition: The Girl With the Popular Front...
Donor Norton is pretty well satisfied with the 145 paintings he gave the museum: he and his wife spent 20 years collecting them. Sixty are by contemporary U.S. artists-Robert Brackman, Eugene Speicher, Leon Kroll, Maurice Sterne, Robert Philipp, Jerry Farnsworth. Earlier U.S. artists like Inness, Whistler, Frederick Waugh, Elliott Daingerfield, are represented. English portraitists, a few illustrative old and French Impressionist masters help round out the collection...
...Whistler's famed Portrait of the Artist's Mother has canonized Mother; but what about Father? The National Father's Day Committee has searched for two years for a painting that would bring Father out of the nowhere into the here. The committee checked over 3,000 paintings by celebrated artists, from Giotto to Grant Wood, last week-with Father's Day (June 15) just ahead-gave up the search...
Jerome H. Buckley, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, a second-year graduate student in English, won the Ruskin Prize, awarded for the best essay on the life, work, or interests of John Ruskin. Buckley wrote an essay on "Ruskin Versus Whistler...