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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1937)
-The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Saturday iaorajig, Decesr 11, 1937 PAGE FlVq 97 t?0ttr educators and art authorities hail world-famous gainsborough portrait! THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH (1727-1788), the first of the dis tinctly English school of painting, was the most celebrated society painter of all time. His procedure was to have his sitter patiently wait while he painted the most attractive woman he could imagine. After that he began, to "work down to a point that approached the appearance of the lady in question. When she be gan to see a -resemblance, he quit. He confessed :to George III that he preferred to paint landscapes, his works of which as art rank as high or higher than hisjiortraits, but his wife's extravagant demands made him turn to the more lucrative por trait painting. Gainsborough por traits are in clear and transparent tones of blue; and green. His Blue Boy was recently sold for 4780,000, perhaps the highest price ever paid for a painting less than 200 years Id. The famous Duchess of Devon shire, stolen In 1876 and lost to art records for many years, reappeared in about 1901, and later was pur chased by J. P. Morgan. MASSYS- GREAT FLEMISH MASTER i QUENTIN MASSYS (1466 1530) in The Banker and His Wife illustrates the tradition in Flemish painting known as "the microscopic point of view". Detail and more detail, each one rendered perfectly,, distinguishes his style. Carefully aad faithfully, Massys painted each feature of the two faces and lavished no less care upon the tiniest object in the room. In his early years, he was a blacksmith and ironworker,, then falling in love with an artist's daughter he turned to painting and became one of the Masters of all time. Two monarchs, King Philip II and Queen Elizabeth, bid against each other for The Entombment, but the people of Antwerp refused to let it go. Bid ding reached 40,000 florins ($50, 000) for this picture Massys had sold for 300 florins. MATISSE-f BRILLIANT MODERN t ODALISQUE by HENRI MATISSE 1869- ) has move ment, exuberant color and flowing design. These are the specific attri butes of Matisse. .". . For ten years he worked painstakingly in the Louvre copying masterpieces for the French government. He learned all that the masters- could teach him. ... But that was only the be ginning. He began to experiment and became 'one of the originators of the "Modernist Movement". The world that laughed at him in 1905, stopped nevertheless to look, and later to buy at increasing prices until today he is one of the richest living artists. . . . It is best not to look for subject matter or story in the works of this still active and lively French modern master. Bather one must expose oneself free ly to his work as. one is exposed to the harmonies of music. Approached in this open-minded spirit, there is a thrilling reaction at the sight of a Matisse canvas. - . - Copyrifkt 19CT ..y.w.v. ,x ''a.'' f V TO r your saKe Gainsborough's "Mrs. Efliott,, ft' A uvr J: ft You seem to have gotten hold of the spirit of these years the popular renaissance which has been going forward with increasing sureness since 1929. Professor J. Hv Huddilston University of Maine I think the project which you are sponsoring is a very in teresting and worth while one which will allow people in moderate circumstances to have a knowledge of art which jthey might not otherwise be able to acquire. , C. Powell Minnigerode, Dtrecf or The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. 4 . "a fine opportunity It seems to me that your plan, as outlined, will afford a fine Opportunity to promote a greater appreciation of art among the people of this country. James D. Hoskins, President University of Tennessee We believe your program will mean more to this genera tion in developing art appreciation and art knowledge than any effort ever before undertaken. MAUDE G. Schollenberger, President Wichita Art Association It is" only through daily contact with the better works of art that a more discriminating taste may be formed. Bruce M. Donaldson, Chairman Department of Fine Arts, University of Michigan ; "a genuine service' After an examination of the pictures, I am in complete agreement that 48 prints for $4.68 is a very genuine serv ice. The lectures which accompany them are equally good. John Lee Clarke, Jr., Director Springfield (Mass.) Museum of Fine'Arts Your plan is one of the most stimulating developments in art education for the public. Will S. Taylor, Profestbr of Fine Arts. Brown University The project being -undertaken by your committee should do much toward helping us to use our leisure for self fulfillment. J. W. Studebaker, U. S. Commissioner of Education "excellent reproductions I want to tell you that the reproductions exceed even my anticipations both in quality of color and in general excel lence. Leo T. Doherty, Director of Art ' Worcester Public Schools The prints are really quite fine. This impresses me as quite a worth while undertaking. Reginald Poland, Director Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego It seems to be a most worth while project and I shall be very happy to cooperate with you in any way possible. Paul Gardner, Director . William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City Gone forever are the days of "art for art's sake!" Here are masterpieces of five centuries exquisitely reproduced in full color with the real feeling of originals available for the first! time at a price within the reach of all. Don't miss these, 48 FAMOUS PAINTINGS offered you by THE OREGON STATESMAN in collaboration with the NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR ART APPRECIATION WHAT YOU GET Massys' "The Banker and His Wife'' it m I. -:) l 0 i 'i ! S ft 'fit MSA 'i ' f J V A . s 43 Famous Paintinsrs, selected by a committee of famous art authorities as the typical works of tha greatest artists of the last 5 centuries. In remarkable, true-to-the-original reproductions, approximately 11 by 14 inches, ready for mounting1 or framing. In weekly sets' of four, demonstrating the progress of art from tha Italian Renaissance to contemporary America. 1 o LESSONS IN rnrr I L ART APPRECIATION XWL Here is art criticism and comment written from your point of view. Fascinating, profusely illustrated, easy to understand and to remember. Not a bit high brow. Not technical. By Bernard Myers, P&.D., qf New York University, well known writer and lecturer on art. One Lesson comes FREE with each weekly envelope of four Paintings. COLLECTORS PORTFOLIO FREE We've thought of everything, Including th fad that of course you can't hang all .these beautiful paintings at one time, and that you'll want to keep them fresh and flat between thumbings-over. So we'ra offering this handsome Collector's Portfolio, in neutral tones, FREE to all those who secure the complete set of 48 Famous Paintings. Save the Portfolio Certi ficate with each weekly envelope. (Send 154 if ordered by mail.) JlatlsseV "OdaUsque LIST OFARTISTS Homer Vermeer Daumier Eakins Hals Courbet Cassatt Rembrandt Monet Benton Reubens Degas Da Vinci Turner Renoir Titian Bonington Cezanne Michelangelo Gainsborough Van Gogh Raphael Reynolds Gauguin Breughel Boucher Matisse Holbein Greuze Picasso Direr Fragonard Derain Massys Watteau Marc . El Greco David Curry Caravaggio Delacroix . Wood Lorrain Corot TCent Velasque Millet Hopper HOW TO OBTAIN These 48 Masterpieces; Here is Art Certificate No. 1. Hereafter you will find these Art Certificates on Page 2 each day. Each Cer tificate has a different number. . . Clip and save these Art Certificates. When you have six differently numbered Certificates, bring them to the office of this newspaper with only 39 cents (46 cents if by mail), which will entitle you to the first week's Set of Four Paintings and the first Lesson in Art Appreciation. Do the tam$ for IS weeks to get the entire collection of- these 4$ superb reproductions. The Art Portfolio will be given free to those who get the complete collection and who save the Portfolio , Certificates, one of which accompanies each week's set of four pictures. (Send 15 if ordered by maiL) Eleven Sets Now Here Eleven out of the 12 sets of pictures are now on band and may be purchased. The 12th set is expected early next week.. Watch for announcement. Cost of each set is 39 cents and cost plus mailing remains 46 cents on single sets. On orders of more than three sets the mailing charge is 27 cents, so that the charge for the entire series of 48 pictures, to be mailed but, is $4.95, including the portfolio. , - t - V : .( -.Jvto?f--- W - .AV- ' - 1 - . w " ' s A. v - S v , " . N iniMiTriiaMMna i ff iWiim,i'',ri a i tfriwwi nafifY ' i ihttti r i To kno w a reai" a rt is a n i nnpo i vi in g