Word: artists
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Born in 1600, Claude Gellee, called is Lorraine from his native province of France, ventured to Rome in his youth struggled as a paint-boy in Tassi's studio, and won his first recognition from Cardinal Bentivoglio, who, in 1629, purchased two pictures from the young artist. When Pope Urban, who was shown them by the cardinal, expressed his exceptional pleasure, the landscapes of Claude became the fashion, and his fame steadily rose during the rest of his long life of 82 years. At his death he was a recognized classic, his reputation remaining steadily supreme in his field throughout...
...army surgeon. Sir Francis Bacon believed that his fame would rest of his career as a lawyer and statesman. Bourne-Jones did not begin to paint until he was nearly thirty years old. In our own time we have seen Mr. Booth Tarkington who aspired to be an artist emerge as one of the leading American authors...
...casually and with too much modesty, two excellent novels, and a book on English composition which has carried his precise knowledge, the guidance of his flawless taste and his inspiriting influence far beyond the walls of Harvard. Whatever he wrote himself bore all the graces of a distinguished literary artist. He leaves Harvard the poorer by a genial personality an unfailing sympathy for the student (too often obscured behind an exterior of mocking shyness), and a fund of knowledge which the college will be long in replacing. Boston Tcaucribt...
...University has been the successful bidder among many institutions on a collection of minerals, regarded by scientists as one of the finest lots of specimens ever assembled by one man, representing the life-work of the late Elwood P. Hancock, of Burlington, N. J. Being a talented artist and cabinet carver by profession, he increased the attractiveness of the specimens by working out the natural crystals on the face...
...cast--Miss Grace George has finely appreciated the role of Barbara, and does more than justice to the part. From enthusiasm to discouragement, she is always the artist, and the noticeable suppression of ranting and rank melodrama is quite evident. Barbara is a dignified character and Miss George makes her fascinatingly so. Mr. Ernest Lawford as Adolphus Cusins is very successful, and his interpretation of the Greek professor could not well be improved upon by the present generation of actors. Two members of the cast as originally played in New York were missing, Mr. Louis Calvert, whose voice so suggested...