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...subjects will be shown. Of those which are lacking, many are to be found only in European collections. All of the great series will be on exhibition--The Caprices, Disasters of War, Proverbs, and Bull-fights. The Bulls of Bordeaux, a series of four lithographs, done when the artist was nearly eighty years old, will be shown. These series passed through a number of editions, and the plates in their successive printings, lost much of their freshness. These changes are of great interest and importance to the student and collector. This exhibition will afford a splendid opportunity to study...
...Independent Artist...
Goya, coming as he did when Spain was fighting for independence, declared his independence as an artist, and stood as a revolutionist in art. He abandoned the old classicism which had held sway over art, and turning to nature, looked at her with the eyes of his time, and interpreted her in the spirit of his age. Interested less in the representation of form than in the expression of character and movement, he was the fore-runner of modern expressionism...
This collection is now the most complete existing of the Victorian artist, poet, woodcarver, and eminent socialist. It is the gift of A. H. Parker '98, given in memory of Caroline Miller Dabney Parker, over a period of several years. Among the most recent acquisitions are first editions and original drawings of Crane's illustrations to picture books for children, which sold fifty years ago for a shilling, and are now almost priceless. These include "Mother Hubbard", "Beauty and the Beast", and "The Five Little Pigs", which subsequently ran into many editions under the name of Walter Crane's Picture...
Unlike Skippy's father, Artist Crosby, 39, is minuscule, bellicose. It is legend that half the taxi-drivers and police of Manhattan used to call him by his first name. Last year Artist Crosby bought a full page in the Washington Herald, dealt with Prohibition much as in last week's attack, announced that he had sworn never to drink again "with or without repeal" (TiME...