Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case of Greenwood's picture, documentary value far outweighs esthetic merit. In others, such as Feke's portrait of Clergyman Hiscox, the balance is kept even. But whether viewed primarily as art or as history, the colonial canvases make an eye-opening display...
...Captains Carousing at Surinam lies a world away from such formal make-believe. Painter John Greenwood, a footloose Boston artist, showed the soft underbelly of Puritanism. Surinam, or Dutch Guiana, was a stopping place on the Yankee merchant circuit. Greenwood spent some years there, put himself in his picture rushing, candle in hand, for the door. Among the other identified portraits is that of Captain Nicholas Cooke (later Governor of Rhode Island), smoking a pipe and talking with Captain Esek Hopkins (later commander of the Continental navy) at the table. Another Hopkins, Stephen (who was to sign the Declaration...
Died. Irene Langhorne Gibson, 83, the "Original Gibson Girl," widow of Artist Charles Dana Gibson, second of the "five beautiful Langhorne sisters of Virginia" (including Britain's Lady Astor); in Greenwood. Va. As pictured by her husband, with her sweetly haughty expression, hourglass figure and stylish pompadour, she became the gaslight era's symbol of genteel femininity, influenced the dress, manners and flirtations of a generation of U.S. girls...
...Henry Greenwood, head of a kind of latter-day British East India Company, is in a running fight with his fellow officers to liberalize the company's treatment of its Hindu employees. Armin Wensley is a multilingual young Foreign Office expert bent on improving Anglo-Indian understanding. Laura Johnston is a ravishing brunette who prefers Armin to her busy Blimp of a husband...
...where romance leaves off, intrigue begins. Greenwood, for whom Armin has gone to work, builds himself a kind of Shangri-La up on a hill, and turns it into a finishing school for a lovely sun-kissed Hindu teen-ager named Kumari. Race-conscious troublemakers start spreading ugly rumors. What happens to Greenwood and who gets Kumari makes for a skin-prickling ending that will either have readers biting their nails or sharpening them on the throat of any kill-joy who gives it away...