Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Painter Brush is already 74 years old, it is unlikely that he will collect any money from Mrs. Brooks-Aten. No foxy sycophant tricking unwary ladies with oiled flatteries for which they can ill afford to pay, Artist Brush had better things to do last week than to gloat upon the precedent his suit had established or to bewail the obdurateness of Mrs. Brooks-Aten. It was the second week of his first comprehensive public exhibition at the Grand Central Art Galleries, Manhattan...
...Since the turn of the Century he has devoted himself to portraiture and figure groups, often using for models the members of his numerous family. Possibly the most noteworthy, certainly the most celebrated, of his 47 paintings which hung at the Grand Central last week was Mourning Her Brave: the figure of a squaw, standing in snow at the edge of a cliff. Birds circle in the grey sky over her head, the snow stretches upward behind her over rocks, she raises her wide shoe-button eyes into a sky that is empty of all things except snow...
...announced last week that Master Lambton would be sold to an unnamed Manhattan dealer or collector. The present owner, the Earl of Durham, last August refused $750,000 for the same picture. It was learned that the price now would be $1,000,000. A reason for the deal was surmised: The third Earl of Durham died 16 months ago. His twin, the fourth Earl of Durham, died a year ago. Inheritance taxes subtracted $4,500,000 from the value of the Durham estate, now estimated...
...Duke of Richmond & Gordon announced last week that he was planning the sale of books and paintings from his collections at Goodwood House and Gordon Castle...
Copies of what English cat lovers prize as "the Budge monograph on Mike"' reached Manhattan last week...