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...Manhattan. She was being sued for $660 in back rent. Her estranged husband, a 78-year-old dandy in a blue jacket, flowing red tie and handlebar mustaches, was also present. He is the John Gellatly from whom in 1929 Congress accepted a $4,000,000 art collection-Whistler, La Farge, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, George Inness, John Noble, J. Alden Weir, a fine collection of porcelains and 16th Century jewelry-for the Smithsonian Institution's National Gallery. He used to keep his collection,in a private gallery in Manhattan's arty Heckscher Building, did not invite...
Representative work of the Itaham and German artists of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries, some pieces by Rembrandt and Nanteuil. Fifteenth century English etchings, including Whistler and Meryon, and Nineteenth century lithographs, are to constitute the collection, which is owned by the Fogg Museum. Especial attention has been called to some excellent specimens of Schenganer's later work...
...Mich, into a French-Canadian family, spoke "Canuck" French in his youth. Aged 16 he went to Manhattan to study under the late famed John LaFarge, who later sent him to Puvis de Chavannes in France. That artist enrolled him in the Academie Julian, added his own instruction afterwards. Whistler was his final master. Then Leon Dabo set out to range the world, meeting celebrities and learning languages-acquiring, incidentally, a love of the sea, which became his favorite theme. He knows Asia, the Near East, Africa. He spent 1904 in Greece. In France before the War he met Georges...
...American Art, now installed in its new Georgian building. In the nine sky-lit gallery rooms are some 100 U. S. paintings valued at $1,500,000. Among them: three Winslow Homers, George Wesley Bellows' Anne in Purple Wrap and Dempsey-Firpo Fight (lithograph). James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Battersea Bridge, works of Abbott Thayer, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Arthur B. Davies, Julian Alden Weir, John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Frank Weston Benson, and many another modern; Early American works by Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull, Benjamin West. There are six rooms for permanent and loan exhibitions...
...Rothenstein autobiography contains many a Rothenstein portrait, innumerable anecdotes of his famed friends. Immaculate James McNeill Whistler always called him "Parson." Rothenstein's frantic efforts to keep Verlaine sober at Oxford are fully described. Walter Pater was grievously hurt at Parson Will's drawing of him, asked his friends privately "Do I look like a Barbary...