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...collections, simply because the Museum's principal benefactor happens to have a great name and a great modesty. Handicap No. 1 was encountered on the first floor in the form of a gigantic portrait of beefy, bewhiskered Henry Hobson Richardson (see p. 29) and an exhibition of that architect's work. The second floor was given over entirely to the flaming posters of A. Mouron Cassandre, French advertising artist who produced the chunky little man who drinks Dubonnet all over the world. Only those long of wind and strong of purpose who clumped up to the third...
...disease on April 27, 1886, two years after the first steel frame building had been erected in Chicago. Unlike his admirer, the late Louis Sullivan (TIME, Dec. 9), Richardson had nothing to do with the development of the skyscraper, but because he was the most important U. S. architect of the 19th Century, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week hung a gigantic portrait of him in its lobby, published a scholarly critique of his work,* and displayed photographs and plans of his most important buildings all over the ground floor...
Born in St. James Parish, La. in 1838, Henry Hobson Richardson went to Harvard when his stuttering kept him from a West Point appointment. He was the second famed U. S. architect to study his profession in Paris.* Once back in his native country his success as an architect was rapid. Rebelling against the General Grant era of architecture, he won competitions right & left while his prize-winning designs brought in other commissions. One of his least successful, most "Richardsonian" buildings, the New York State Capitol, was the cause of a great scandal. He was called in as architect after...
...vast capacity for champagne and the bright yellow vests he wore with evening clothes. Though he built several churches he was by no means a religious man. In fact at dinner one evening his good friend Phillips Brooks, rector of Boston's Trinity, was abashed to learn that Architect Richardson had never read the Bible. Architect Richardson promised to do so. started at Genesis, read straight on through the night. At breakfast next morning he lustily hailed his family...
...exhibit the reverse of the medal, ornamented by the likeness of a stage lady of a different type. Joyce Heath (Bette Davis) is a minor-league Duse whose talents are impaired by a fondness for drink, lechery and offstage exhibitionism. She drives her husband to despair, causes a young architect (Franchot Tone) to jilt his fiancee (Margaret Lindsay), and wrecks his high-priced roadster on a tree. This produces a concussion and remorse, in which Joyce Heath abandons her bad ways...