Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finest Rembrandt show the U.S. has seen in many a year was presented last week by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose ponderous galleries contain the Western Hemisphere's largest general collection of important masterpieces. Unlike many a museum, the Met did not have to borrow-every painting, etching and drawing...
...more or less well-authenticated Rembrandt oils, the Metropolitan chose only the 16 finest, surrounded them with a comprehensive collection of etchings and drawings. They included the Old Woman Cutting Her Nails, the portrait of Rembrandt's son Titus, the bulbous-nosed Self Portrait showing the artist at 54. The exhibition proved again that Rembrandt was far and away the greatest of those few painters in history who have rivaled writers like Balzac and Dostoevski in their ability to delineate the individual human soul...
Manhattan gallerygoers, long familiar with Critic Cortissoz' crisply expressed enthusiasms and prejudices, were not surprised to find few 20th-century paintings in his hand-picked anthology. In the exclusive company of Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Renoir, only twelve U.S. artists (all dead) made the grade...
...rushed into the vacuum of Vag's mind all at once, and with the force of a hurricane. He saw the whole conference hour within the space of a few seconds . . . the knock on the door . . . Hello, sir. I'm terribly sorry about Monday. Isn't that a new Rembrandt print hanging over the mantlepiece? I think Rembrandt combines the best qualities of both the Dutch and Flemish schools of art, don't you? . . . What did you say? Psychology? Oh --that reminds me. I was talking to my section man the other day after class, and he said...
Manhattan's bird-painting fans flocked last week to Fifth Avenue's Audubon House to cock their eyes and twitter over a new set of Southern bird pictures. Few bird lovers would crook their necks to look at a Rembrandt. But they will flock like wild geese to see a well-drawn picture of a roseate spoonbill's rump sticking out of a swamp. And these pictures were unusual, not only for the meticulous exactitude with which they depicted the spreading wings of buffleheads, warblers and herons, but for the realism with which they reproduced the iridescent...