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...show begins with James Abbott McNeil Whistler's painting, Nocturne in Black and Gold: Rag Shop, Chelsea (c. 1848) He explores the effects of shadow and light, outlining a little girl's illuminated white dress in a dimly lit storefront which encloses her in a veil of darkness. The only representational painting in the exhibit, it anchors the efforts of the later painters in their exploration of tonality in the continuum of degrees of abstraction...
Cover: Angel by Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1889, from the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C./Art Resource...
Happy holidays, Ben Abbott...
Dogs have had historical significance at Harvard, according to Arnold Professor of Science William H. Bossert '59, master of Lowell House. President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, was often seen walking his dog. Bossert named his previous dog Abbott, in honor of Lowell...
...Feydeau bedroom farce and a rendition of Ibsen's The Master Builder about which even Randall, who directed, can't find anything good to say; in the much improved second season, an intelligent, revisionist reading of The Seagull, a solid (and Tony-nominated) Saint Joan and the George Abbott comedy Three Men on a Horse, with Randall supremely skillful if utterly miscast as a husband...