Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four Radcliffe graduate students have become the temporary guests of Sargent College as a result of the fire which gutted their house at 46 Concord Ave. during the vacation...
...girls will remain in their temporary quarters until Feb. 1, when Radcliffe's lease on a replacement apartment becomes operative. Besides the four at Sargent, three are being lodged in Ames, Radcliffe's off-campus graduate house, and the other six in undergraduate dormitories in the quad...
...made room for the girls in the guest room at Lenox Hall because the Radcliffe housing manager said it was an emergency," a Sargent official said last night...
...eloquent passage, Sargent's friend Edmund Gosse gives one possible reason. Sargent, says Gosse, "thought that the artist ought to know nothing whatever about the nature of the object before him . . . but should concentrate all his powers on a representation of its appearance. The picture was to be a consistent vision, a reproduction of the area filled by the eye. Hence, in a very curious way, the aspect of a substance became much more real to him than the substance itself...
...short, Sargent was a painter of appearances. Nothing could be more foreign to the modern, analytical temper, which is always denying that appearances count for much...