Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Artistic taste today is likely to dismiss Painter John Singer Sargent as briskly as it does that whole great clutter of heavy gilt frames, dusty plush draperies and ornate grandeurs that marked his vanished era. It is only 30 years since Sargent died, half a century since the Edwardian peak of his fame; yet the interval can hardly be measured by years alone. Just how far and fast fashions have changed since Sargent's day could best be seen this week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, celebrating the centennial of the painter's birth with...
Grey Hodnett, Stacay Holmes, Ken McIntosh, and Hugh Sargent, members of the Crimson's championship soccer squad, have been named to the All-New England first team...
...Sargent, the out-going captain, was chosen at left fullback, and Hodnett captain and the team's leading scorer with 11 goals, was named to inside left. Holmes was chosen at center halfback, and McIntosh pitched at outside right...
There was no particular arrangement because Mrs. Gardner wanted it to look like a house which had slowly accumulated things rather than a museum. A Manet hangs by a Sargent; in the Chinese Loggia there is an early French French statute of a Madonna and Child; in the Raphael room, a bronze Roman bowl stands next to a Botticelli; and eighteenth century French bread cake lies near a magnificent self-portrait by Rembrandt; near several Whistler pastel is a collection of lace in a cabine which hides a hot air vent, in the Veronese room. "It is truly a human...
...Market confidence" is a big factor in the current art boom, but as in the stock market, the experts have sometimes been caught with their stocks down. Items: John Singer Sargent's watercolors, worth $20,000 in the '205, today can be picked up for around $1,000. Alphonse de Neu-ville's flagwaving scene from the Franco-Prussian war, The. Last Cartridges, whooped up to $40,000 in gold in 1890, was auctioned off six years...