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Thomas chose such anonymity because he had become an instant personality. He was, no less, the man who had finally solved the mystery of Masquerade. That fantasy for children by British Author-Painter Kit Williams has been a surprise bestseller for almost three years (1.5 million copies in eight languages). Climaxing a feverish 18-month hunt, Thomas had dug up the $10,000 bejeweled golden rabbit in Ampthill Park, Bedfordshire...
Meanwhile, the show in the existing Fogg continued to prove the worth of the museum. It is a retrospective-improbably enough, the only one ever held-of 56 paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael, who was by general consent the greatest landscape painter to live in 17th century Holland. It will not go elsewhere in the U.S., so anyone with a serious interest in the art of landscape should get to the Fogg before April 11. We see Ruisdael entire, for the first and perhaps the last time. The man, however, disappears behind the work. Little is known of his life...
...president of Harvard and editor of the Ladies Home Journal, turned down some photographs of Diaghileff Russian Ballet dancers offered him for publication in the magazine, because the dancers' skirts exposed their knees. He finally published them in the January 1916 issue, after he arranged with an air brush painter at a cost of $600 to lower the skirts a few inches below their knees. Despite changing time Harvard has done little to take cognizance of the changed situation. It lets young men and women wrestle with problems of the sexual and emotional relationships they face while they study Plato...
DIED. Julian Levi, 81, painter and teacher whose work drifted from conventional seascapes to semi-abstract scenes; of a heart attack; in New York City...
Holland in the 17th century was a painter's dream, where art was bought and sold in the public marketplace. Collecting was popular among the middle classes, and it was not rare to find paintings throughout the rooms of farm houses or in the local bakery. The Dutch favored landscapes because they were familiar, and most 17th century masters away from allegorical subjects. The universal demand for art prompted a great outgoing of works, and it is little wonder that historians have been slow at sorting out the artists While Ruisdael has been one of the neglected landscapists...