Word: whistlerisms
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...Ronnie Drew, 33, whose voice is like nothing so much as a bullfrog with a hangover, bestraddles the line with occasional forays a mile or so off pitch. Tenor Luke Kelly, 26, gives out what might be the mating call of a rusty file. Banjoist Barney McKenna, 27, Tin Whistler Ciaron Bourke, 32, and Fiddler John Sheahan, 28, round out the onslaught with glorious disregard for niceties such as time or tune...
Wyeth's largest retrospective show to date, 223 works, is currently on view in Philadelphia's 161-year-old Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.* At the opening, he received the academy's gold medal, the 36th winner in the train of artists like Winslow Homer, Whistler and Sargent, recalled: "I was twelve years old when my father first brought me to the academy, and I . . ." Then he could say no more and sat down...
Last week Twachtman received his greatest recognition so far. In his native city of Cincinnati, the art museum opened a retrospective of 134 of his works. Twachtman had none of the dramatics of Whistler, the figurative poise of Mary Cassatt, or the cheerfulness of Childe Hassam. But the show establish es him as a top-rate U.S. impressionist...
...John in an uncompleted altarpiece. La Farge also succeeded in smuggling a touch of the Renaissance back to the U.S., revived the art of stained glass, and visited Tahiti with sketchbook in hand before Gauguin got there. Unlike many of his well-educated countrymen, such as his contemporary Whistler, who became expatriates, La Farge put his talents to embellishing the barren American cultural scene...
...been art director of The Yellow Book, a weary, queery literary quarterly; and when Oscar Wilde made scandalous trial headlines for his homosexual liaison, Beardsley, though not involved, was sacked out of hand. But when James McNeill Whistler at last told Beardsley that he was indeed a great artist, Beardsley cried. Then again, he was only 23 at the time...