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Manhattan's Witney Museum, assiduous in keeping tabs on the dead as well as the living, last week performed another of its noted reanimations. The subject was U.S. Artist Frank Duveneck, who died a silvery grand old man in Cincinnati in 1919. When the average citizen thinks of first-rate U.S. painters of half a century ago he remembers John Singer sargent, but he is not likely to remember that Sargent once remarked: "After all's said, Frank Duveneck is the greatest talent of the brush of this generation...
...John Carroll grew up in San Francisco and on his father's cattle ranch, boasts that he "knew" the Barbary Coast intimately before it was spoiled." He studied engineering at the University of California until his practical father gave in, shipped him off to study art under Frank Duveneck in Cincinnati. "After six months," John Carroll recalls, "I was sure I knew more about painting than Deveneck and he threw me out of his class...
...jargon connotation. Something was denied his hand. He left his illustrations for the Century Magazine far behind, but he could never express himself perfectly. A certain crabbedness entered his nature through his sense of frustration. On a small scale he had the Michelangelic misanthropy. He said of his teacher, Duveneck "He liked me?which most people...
...making the faint checkmark of approval; Of Zorn's later prints he says: "They had become feeble and photographic beyond words," though for the other periods of that surpassing master he has some admiration. The book is illustrated with the prints of many great etchers?Whistler, Rembrandt, Pennell, Gova, Duveneck, Turner, Lepèère?in exquisite photogravure, illumined with pointed anecdote. He recounts how he talked before a certain print society "to educate it," and how after his tirade a lady "furry and smelly" sailed up to him without glancing at the gallery walls: "Oh, Mr. Pennell, your exhibition...
Busts of William M. Chase, Walter Shirlaw, Clinton Ogilvy, H. K. Brown, J. Q. A. Ward, Carroll Beckwith, George Inness, Frank Duveneck have already been placed in the Library rotunda. The Whistler bust will be by Frederick MacMonnies, who knew Whistler intimately in student days at the Academic Cormon, Paris. Joseph Pennell, Whistler authority, and W. Francklyn Paris, architect, comprise the memorial committee...