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...Czechoslovakia there has just been completed The Epic of Slavic History, a series of 20 paintings so enormous that Alfons Mucha, the artist, has been as busy with stepladders as with lexicons. For more than 18 years the work has been under way. The subjects range from earliest Slavic history to allegorical, exuberant prophecy. Sages, religious leaders, rulers appear in glorious pageantry. The most magnificent picture of the series, a canvas as large as the façade of a sizeable barn, depicts the liberation of Russian serfs by Tsar Alexander II in 1861. In a grey, snowy twilight...
...Artist a Point of Discussion...
...execution of the portrait has been for a number of years open to discussion. It has been contested that the painting was drawn by an English artist, brought to this country by Franklin himself, and given to his brother. Others believe that it was painted at Newport, R. J., when Franklin was visiting his brother there, when Benjamin was about 30 years of age. It is now generally established, however, that the picture was executed by Robert Feke, the best of the pre-Copley artists in America, in Philadelphia in 1746, when Franklin was 40 years of age. It shows...
...Author. But it is as sociologist rather than artist that Mr. Wells wishes to be known. Student of chemistry, physics, biology, his scientific mind repeatedly comes to the rescue of emotions that have been too quick to accept a new theory. Honest, he is not afraid to satirize opinions he himself has passionately held. His wit is sharpest when he is in a temper (in person or in print), but he is a good listener and efficient host-unusual virtues for a man of genius. At 62, his intellectual vitality is almost equalled by his physical energy-his father...
...bank, David, beloved servant of the community, David, matter-of-course slave to his relatives. "Perhaps Davey will see his way clear to ..." send a bespectacled niece to finishing school, house a carping old-maid cousin, finance the whims and mistresses of a charming but debauched artist brother. Sophie married Davey out of her need for him, but the omnipresence of his relatives drove her to a garish New York apartment, complete with lovelorn poets, exaggerated cigaret holders, and the Nietzschean superman who mightily desired her. Outnumbered and surrounded, David wins...