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Writer Johnston had suggested Son Roosevelt's income from his Boston insurance firm of Roosevelt & Sargent was between $250,000 and $2,000,000 a year. Reply (with photographs of his income-tax returns): James Roosevelt's taxable income was as follows...
Sheeler, born in 1883, was in his late 20s when the bravura of Sargent and Chase was superseded by two major influences: 1) realism from New Yorkers Sloan, Bellows and Luks, 2) Cubism from Parisians Braque, Picasso, Duchamp. It is Biographer Rourke's thesis that Charles Sheeler, by conspicuously keeping his head through a wild & woolly period, "submerged" the French abstract influence in native U. S. forms just as "real" as the street scenes of the Realists and more significant. These forms Sheeler found first in the old farmhouses, barns and functional handicraft of Bucks County, Pa., where...
Artists had been speaking to the board for 40 years. In the late 1890s, when John Carrere and Thomas Hastings designed the big building at the corner of 42nd St. and Fifth Ave. in Manhattan, they had ambitious plans for the upstairs panels. They thought of John Singer Sargent, whose gaudy Triumph of Religion in the Boston Public Library they admired. They thought of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Whistler died in 1903. The library, privately endowed (only the building is public property), was too poor to pay Sargent's price, too proud to give the job to anyone...
...members stuck at having a WPA artist fill a space meant for Whistler or Sargent. "If any member," said Mr. Stokes, "thinks that Edward Laning is a long-haired Bolshevik, he should get a look at him." Edward Laning is neat, solemn; at 32 he looks less like a Bolshevik than a college senior. The sketches he submitted for four panels on The History of Bookmaking (Mr. Stokes suggested the subject), impressed the board last week and finally succeeded in bringing it around completely...
Author Johnston says insurance men estimate Son James's income from his Boston insurance firm (Roosevelt & Sargent Inc.) between $250,000 and $2,000,000 per year, says he built it to that by "twisting" accounts away from other agents by political leverage. Items...