Word: zorn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instructive but comparatively tame were the 18th and 19th-Century paintings which Director Plimpton and Stockholm's National Museum Curator Sixten Strömbom had included. Discreetly confined to historical art, the show stopped with such established fin de siècle cosmopolitans as Anders Zorn. Ernst Josephson, contained no work by such up-&-coming young Swedish painters as Ewald Dahlskog and Leander Engstr...
...known as "Smiley." In 1889 he went to New York with $200 in savings, entered the Art Students' League, quickly got himself into the class of the late William Merritt Chase. Chase painted in the bravura style with which Italy's Boldini, and Sweden's Zorn were able to produce first-rate works of art. For nearly 50 years Howard Chandler Christy has used the same flashy style but without the same results...
Further sales gave Gibson a chance to study first at the New York Art Student's League, later in Paris. There he acquired the technique he still has, the loose draughtsmanship of the late great Anders Zorn. While in Munich, just before the Spanish-American War, Artist Gibson received a commission for some weekly pictures. A bald nervous little German came around looking for a job. From that followed a long series remembered by all Gibsonians as "The Education of Mr. Pipp...
...marble bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana, 15th Century Florentine. Highest literary item was Francis Scott Key's manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner," sold for $24,000 to Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach as agent for Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery. Anders Zorn's The Toast, of which exist only 75 impressions, was the most expensive etching...
...Dear Sister . . ." wrote one Frieda Zorn of Berlin to her sister in New York. Her letter, opened by Nazi censors, never reached "dear sister." Last week a Nazi court sentenced her to 15 months in jail for writing "false reports...