Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whistler Regrets. Even time stood still for father Sitwell. In the late '20s he suggested throwing an "Artists' Party," was vexed to hear that all his intended guests (Sargent, Rodin, Renoir, Whistler, Degas) were too dead to attend. As for his children's literary efforts, he either maddened them by rewriting their poems ("Two brains, dear boy, are better than one"), or warned them, against literary excess ("My cousin . . . had a friend who killed himself by writing a novel"). One paternal judgment on his gifted daughter: "Edith made a great mistake by not going in for lawn...
Final Fall Term Study Cards must be filed by all undergraduates at 2 University Hall by 5 p. m. today, Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 has announced. A student who fails to hand in his Study Card on time will incur a charge of 810. If his card is handed in more than one week late, the charge will...
...Methodist prelate, Oxnam has two unusual hobbies; the theater and art. He and his wife go to every play they can and have a good collection of paintings (mostly of the Barbizon school), including a Sargent and a Sir Joshua Reynolds: Girl with a Bird. When the mayor of Omaha tried to censor some profanity from the Lunt-Fontanne production of Idiot's Delight, Oxnam got him to drop the attempt, declaring: "Censorship is more dangerous than an occasional realistic line. If the mayor decides to remain in politics, may I suggest a theme song for his coming campaign...
...unexpected pleasure to pick up a leading magazine and find a page devoted to such painters as Sargent, Whistler and Chase [TIME, July 5]. A refreshing change from the emotional, "childlike" painting of today...
...rank British painter having his first one-man show in a decade was: 1. John Singer Sargent...