Word: rosenberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come. One among them had a different thought; he dashed off to a friend's studio to make a lithograph of the disastrous scene: the great, gloomy canyon, the dashing crowds and distraught faces. That lithograph is now in the Philadelphia Museum, and other pictures by James N. Rosenberg hang in no fewer than 20 U.S. museums. Yet Rosenberg has always remained an amateur in spirit. He paints for the sheer joy of it in a highly emotional style, blandly ignoring the arrows of sophisticates who find his art old-fashioned and crude...
...Russian spy-not for money (a mere $280 was all he got), but convinced that he was somehow serving to bring about and keep the peace. He admitted that he had passed on atomic secrets to Soviet agents in New York. Los Alamos and London (Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed in the U.S. for treason, were members of the Fuchs spy ring). He had not felt that he was betraying his adopted country or his many British and U.S. friends, said Fuchs, because he was able to keep his Communist and democratic loyalties "in two separate compartments" by a process...
...staff at Fogg, to whom acknowledgements for help and advice are made in the Student Collection's catalogue, largely disclaims responsibility for the mistakes, which are few. "The idea of the student collection," stated Jakob Rosenberg '19, professor of Fine Arts, "was that the students do it on their own." According to Philip Hofer '21, secretary of the Fogg Museum, the students organized the collection "mostly without supervision...
...Friedsam, had been "authenticated" by scholars and repeatedly exhibited as genuine. For years the original was tucked out of sight at Dumbarton Oaks, Robert Woods Bliss's mansion in Washington, D.C. But after it was willed to Harvard in 1940, it was spotted by Harvard's Jakob Rosenberg, topflight Rembrandt scholar. "A comparison of the two heads shows at once how much of the plastic quality is lost [in the copy] by a manipulation of the brush that imitates Rembrandt's strokes but loses control of their modeling function," wrote Rosenberg. "The transitional tones, so essential...
...Gogh's Public Garden at Aries fell to Manhattan Dealers Rosenberg & Stiebel for $369,600, highest price ever for a Van Gogh. (Goldschmidt bought it for about...