Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show opened, the Whitney announced it would soon jettison its fine collection of 19th Century art (worth perhaps $250,000), use the proceeds to buy more & more paintings like those in the current show. For the price of such a proven masterpiece as Thomas Eakins' The Biglen Brothers Ready to Start the Race, the Whitney could probably pick up the latest Koerner, and the latest Kantor, Gatch and Levine...
...time the division had won its 19th Medal of Honor and its 18,337th Purple Heart after Okinawa, it was ready to take on more replacements and train for the invasion of Japan. But soon the war was over and all hands were on their way to China...
Move People. "Technique, composition and all that should be unconscious," Stuempfig explains. "This whole emphasis on technique is a product of the 19th and 20th Centuries; before that people painted the way they walked. The aim is to create something that moves people, that affects them in one way or another...
...conglomeration of blind alleys is, itself, the mysterious center of the weird and wonderful meanderer. Biographer Richard (The Duke) Aldington, in the most complete work on Waterton to date, explores the maze more thoroughly, but still finds no adequate explanation of the man who was unquestionably one of the 19th Century's strangest freaks...
...happened to a British diplomat in the 19th Century, a wrathful government would have sent a couple of His Majesty's gunboats to teach the offenders a lesson. But it happened to a U.S. diplomat in the 20th Century, and the U.S., so far, has managed to do next to nothing...