Word: willson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With their symphonic pride restored, San Franciscans listened last week to the premiere of a symphony which was supposed to be inspired by San Francisco's glories. Composer and conductor of the performance was Meredith Willson, born 33 years ago in Mason City, Iowa. At 17 Composer Willson was playing the flute in Sousa's band, later joined the New York Philharmonic, now works in San Francisco as a musical director for National Broadcasting Co. In his Symphony No. 1 in F, Composer Willson was first mindful of the pioneers who settled the city, then of the Great...
...public's interest in art was proved by museum attendances which were uniformly up over last year. In one month in Manhattan, Ferargil Galleries' annual Artists' Relief Exhibition netted more than $2,000 with pictures priced at $5-$50. U. S. sales of the year were a Charles Willson Peale Washington to the Brooklyn Museum (price undisclosed) ; an early Rembrandt of Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet to the Chicago Art Institute; Jean Antoine Watteau's Mezzetin to the Metropolitan Museum for some $250,000 (TIME, Dec. 17). The 1934 U. S. art turnover easily topped...
...contemporaries have left behind a rich and varied gallery of George Washington's portraits. To John Singleton Copley is attributed a likeness of Washington as an elegant young Colonial of 25, an 18th Century dandy in a tightly curled peruke and lace ruff. Charles Willson Peale first pictured him as a strapping colonel of Virginia militia, utterly self-confident from hard years of surveying Lord Fairfax's estates and fighting Indians in the wilderness. Again, Peale caught him flushed with victory after the Battle of Princeton. In Gilbert Stuart's famed, unfinished Athenaeum ("dollar bill") portrait, Washington is the First...
Recognized immediately by every visitor was a Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) Washington showing the President's sunken cheeks caused by the wooden false teeth which Painter Charles Willson Peale made for him. Less known was a Washington at the Battle of Trenton by Stuart's contemporary, John Trumbull (1756-1843), moody son of a Connecticut Governor, who once refused a commission in Washington's army because a clerk misdated it. Best known of Painter Trumbull's works are his four big panels (The Declaration of Independence, The Surrender of Burgoyne, The Surrender of Cornwallis, The Resignation...
Last week Painter Harry Willson Watrous, 76, who specializes in small highly-finished figures, made news when he stepped out of the presidency of the National Academy of Design. Elected in his place was Norwegian-born Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee), 54, academic painter of land and seascapes. President Lie's election statement to newshawks convinced Academicians that they need fear no disturbing innovations from their new administration...