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 | Mrs Gardner in White 1920 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | 
he
following is from from Bert (The Pragmatic Romanticist):
. . .A
lovely watercolour of Isabella Stewart Gardner portraying her at age 82, after
her debilitating stroke in 1919. "Even I think it is exquisite", she
wrote of it. It is quietly intimate. I like it. It's from the book I have about
the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, a place that I... | GA | igrkio |
 | Schooner, Catherine, Somes c. 1920-1925 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note:
Sold Sothebys; 12/5/1996; Lot 21; $134,500
Forum
From: Donald L Smith
<don sm itty@adelphia.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003
Do you have
any knowledge of the builder or owner of the Scooner
Catherine Somes?
I have been
doing genealogy on the Welch family of Wells, ME and back in 1727/8 there was a
marriage between David Welch... | GA | igrkio |
 | Sand Beach, Schooner Head 1917? Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Scooner
Head is loacted in Acadia National Park, which is only a couple of miles south
of Bar Harbor Maine. This painting, along with "Schooner Catherine
Somes" was painted while Sargent was visiting cousins. The two paintings
were in the Hale family and the figure on the beach was belived to have been of
Mary Newbold Patterson Hale though never... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Louis Ormond c. 1920 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Wm. Roscoe Thayer 1920 |
William
Roscoe Thayer (1859–1923) was an American author and editor. He graduated
from Harvard in 1881 and became editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine in
1892. In 1914, he was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters and
he received honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Brown and other universities.
His verse includes:
*... | GA | igrkio |
 | James Ford Rhodes 1920 |
James Ford
Rhodes (1 May 1848–22 January 1927), was an American industrialist and
Pulitzer Prize winning historian born in Cleveland, Ohio.
He and his
father made a pot of money in iron, coal and steel industries in Cleveland but
then retired in 1885 at the age of 37 (approximately) and devoted
the remainder of his life to the pursuit of... | GA | igrkio |
 | Charles Sprague Sargent 1920 |
Charles
Sprague Sargent (1841-1927) A
Harvard Grad. Was apponted director of Harvard's Botanic Garden in 1872. In
1873 he was appointed the first
director of the Arnold Arboretum.
"The
Arnold Arboretum is a research and educational institution. It manages a
collection of hardy trees, shrubs, and vines located on 265 acres in... | GA | igrkio |
 | Lowell, Abbott Lawrence 1920 | GA | igrkio | |
 | William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, 1916-1922 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. |
During WW1
he was a General Officer Commanding Australian and New Zealand Army Corps,
World War I 1914-1918; Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and
Commander, Dardanelles Army, Gallipoli 1915-1916; General Officer Commanding
Australian Imperial Force 1915-1918; France 1916-1918; Commander, 5 Army,
France 1918-1919
Service... | GA | igrkio |
 | Paul Manship January 30, 1921 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
