Word: delacroix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stockaded fur-trading post at Fort Laramie was painted by Alfred Jacob Miller in 1837, when the Rocky Mountain fur trade had already passed its peak. Paris-trained Miller's paintings of a fur trappers' rendezvous, done with blue-tinted mountains in the romantic manner of Delacroix, are the only surviving pictorial records of the mountain men's great annual blowouts of drinking, fighting, "squaw doin's" and trading. The Swiss painter Charles Bodmer, first artist to travel up the Missouri past the Yellowstone, included in his careful watercolors of the fierce Plains warriors, dramatic sketches...
...work he described as "little music." The phrase is not simply humble; it has the distinction of accuracy. But when it flowed pure, Corot's "little music" surpassed that of his greatest contemporaries. Neither the lyre of Ingres nor the trumpet of Delacroix is so haunting as Corot's pastoral pipes...
...walls could speak, the manor house of Nohant in the French province of Berry would be a Niagara of sound. Chopin and Liszt set their music echoing through it; Flaubert and the younger Dumas produced puppet plays (music by Chopin) on its floor. Delacroix painted in Nohant's garden studio, and such famous guests as Balzac, Theophile Gautier and Alfred de Vigny argued and tittle-tattled in its drawing room. In the middle years of the 19th century, Nohant's halls, echoed to the thump of packed bags as estranged lovers and mistresses stormed down them...
...artists who decorated the ceilings in Paris' famed Palais du Louvre, the two best remembered are the 19th century masters Ingres and Delacroix. Last week news leaked out that a third big name is about to be added. France's spry old (70) Georges Braque, currently breaking new ground with a show of his latest (and surprisingly airy) paintings in Manhattan, has recently been asked to design a large ceiling for the Louvre's ornate Salle Henri...
Nearly all of Robinson's choices are products of the Paris-bred revolution which began with Delacroix and survives today in Matisse. It overthrew the power of tobacco-juice brown and gradually raised pure color to the position of first importance in Western art. At the center of that revolution stands the creator of one of Collector Robinson's prize acquisitions: the one-eared, fox-bearded Dutchman who painted the portrait opposite, and whose 100th birthday will be celebrated this month...