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...Perry, a granddaughter of Oliver Hazard ("We-have-met-the-enemy-and -they -are -ours") Perry. He rather disliked and distrusted the U. S. scene, the U. S. citizenry. In his later years it gave him an actual physical revulsion to shake hands with or touch strangers. As an artist he had a magnificent sense of composition, easily held his own in a generation of great draughtsmen: Sargent, Homer, Pennell, Abbey. Critics rate him among his contemporaries somewhere between Edwin Blashfield and John Singer Sargent. Like theirs, his mural paintings were always in the Grand Manner, highly symbolical...
...South Sea sketches were on view last week. But Manhattan socialites were more interested in the opera of his sons and grandchildren. There were eleven of them in the show, ranging from 69-year-old Christopher Grant to 16-year-old John II. Water-colors by the three sons, Artist Bancel, Architect Christopher Grant, Retired Banker Oliver Hazard Perry, showed that they had drunk deep of Father John's medicine. Largest exhibits were the enormous cartoons for the mosaic tympanum of Washington's Trinity College Chapel by Son Bancel and Grandson Thomas Sergeant...
...establishment of such a public school would certainly be a progressive step. On the other hand, it is improbable that, as a headline suggests, the school would be able to bring out "budding genius." Genius has a habit of cutting across barriers, of refusing to be classified. The great artist or poet who failed at school is a familiar figure. Even if a classification is made specially to fit the unusual student, there will be a rub somewhere. A school for talent may fare well. A school for genius amounts to a contradiction in terms...
Death, as to many a young soldier, came to Henri Gaudier in 1915, when he was 23. He was good at fighting and had risen to be a sergeant. Far from being a professional soldier, he was an artist, a radical who had left France to escape his military service. But he was a whole-hogger: when he did anything he did it like St. Michael chasing Lucifer from heaven...
...middle of the XVIII-century. It represents a monkey painting a picture for a group of animal spectators. The other painting is of an earlier date, a portrait of a man by Nicholas do Largilliere. Largilliere was one of the greatest portrait painters of his time, and was appointed artist to the French and British Courts for many years...