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...turn of the century, it was an honor to pose for Sweden's Anders Zorn. Among the sitters for Etcher Zorn, a mountainous, walrus-mustached fellow, were: William Howard Taft, Grover Cleveland, Auguste Rodin, Paul Verlaine...
...Zorn's female models were usually anonymous, but they became equally famous. He posed them by the sea or in bed -with snapshot casualness-and etched them in scratchy fishnets of sunlight or lamplight. Zorn's shy nudes found their way into the portfolios of print connoisseurs, and still adorn the paneled shadows of many a club...
...destroying their plates after they have printed the limited number. Unlike the great printmakers of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, who sold their prints for a song (Hogarth: 25? to $1.75; Goya: 30?; Dürer: 80? to $2.40), modern printmakers sometimes get as much as $100, occasionally (Zorn, Cameron, Benson, McBey) two or three times that much. But the average good print price seldom exceeds...
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...