George, a gentleman art critic, wrote Flitestone's biography; the painter, who'd committed suicide, had been his secret passion.
The existence of "the Sikh gentleman" (Art Malik), especially his honourable bearing.
"The myth of the sophisticated, art-loving Hollywood gentleman art thief is nothing like the real thing," says Dick Ellis, a career detective with London's Metropolitan Police.
Their most recent service: Lawrence and Phong, gentlemen of art and goodwill, curated the Mad About Art auction exhibition.
(Think of what Busby Berkeley does in the production numbers for "42nd Street" and "Lullaby of Broadway," what Howard Hawks gets at in "Monkey Business"—or, for that matter, what Jared Hess achieves in "Gentlemen Broncos"). Art is often pleasant, but that's not what makes it art.
He was a true gentleman, an art collector, and a philanthropist who supported a wide range of cultural activities, but it was his love of chamber music that drew him, week after week for many decades, to our concerts at Alice Tully Hall.
He was a scholar, a gentleman, an arts champion, and a loving and endlessly delightful friend.
Then onward, to what looked like the library of a very tasteful gentleman — soft jazz, art tomes, dark wood.
Although he established himself as a gentleman scholar, an art connoisseur, and a high liver, Pulitzer had an almost magical connection with the common man.
But those who knew him described a polite, dapper English gentleman who loved art, music and clothes with a passion – he was fond of tweed suits and Doctor Who-scarvescandes – and had an almost childlike enthusiasm for his projects and pranks.
