Word: halse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A few moments after Toronto Art Gallery employees reported for work one morning last week, the building was swarming with cops, detectives, reporters, gallery directors and art experts. The reason: six paintings were missing, and two more had been slightly damaged. The thieves had stolen Frans Hals's portraits...
A MASTERPIECE need not lie behind locked doors to be effectively hidden from the public at large. The Laughing Child, one of Frans Hals's most engaging pictures, hangs on public view the year round in Cincinnati's Taft Museum. The museum in itself is a small masterpiece...
Newspaper Publisher Charles Phelps Taft (half brother of the President) and his wife built their collection to fit the museum when it was still their own home, a gem of early Federal architecture on Cincinnati's Lytle Park. In 1927 they presented it intact to Cincinnati. The quiet spacious...
Frans Hals has been called a wife-beater, a tosspot, a congenital bankrupt and an angel with a brush. The first three charges rest on the petty court records of Haarlem, Holland, the last on about 300 paintings scattered throughout the world. The court records show a sorry existence, the...
Hals's fellow citizens found him "talented" only, and his latter-day reputation has suffered at the hands of art lecturers, who used to discuss his work as a foothill below the summit that Dutch art reached in Rembrandt. In reality, Hals stands halfway between Rembrandt's brooding...