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...painting. Modernism, the art of the past hundred years, defined itself in opposition to 19th century "bourgeois" painting: the art of the Salon in France, of the Royal Academy in England. Cezanne, Picasso and Matisse were everything that Sir Edwin Landseer, Sir Edward John Poynter and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema were not and could not be. There was no way of judging the academicians by the standards of postimpressionism. You either execrated them and were on the side of history, or enjoyed them and missed the bus. The art the Victorians liked fell victim to the revolutionary mind. After Cezanne...
...John Everett Millais's Bubbles, Sir Edwin Landseer's Stag at Bay, George Frederick Watts' Hope, John Collier's The Prodigal Daughter and dozens more. Nothing could have seemed more secure than the fame and popularity of their authors; painters like Lord Leighton or, especially, Alma-Tadema (who, while working on one of his Imperial Roman story-pictures, had fresh roses shipped to him from the south of France weekly for four months to get the petals right) made untaxed fortunes, lived on a scale of grandeur that makes Picasso's seem ascetic, and attracted...
...with her--perhaps her condition would improve, and she would be able to talk to him about more of her Harvard experiences, about her life before moving to Cambridge in 1954, about the bookstore which she managed in addition to her job to raise money for Bryn Mawr, her alma mater...
...also founded the Bryn Mawr Book Sale in 1957 to raise money for scholarships to her alma mater. In addition to her full-time work at Harvard, she volunteered 20 hours a week at the store, located on Huron Ave. in Cambridge. Each year, the store raises more than $25,000 for the scholarship fund...
...money goes to individuals. The major recipient is the new Billy Graham Center in Illinois, which will house the graduate school at Wheaton College (Graham's alma mater), an evangelism library and Graham archives. The fund gave the Graham Center $7.7 million last year, and will eventually provide most of its $15.5 million cost. The B.G.E.A. has been transferring some of its proceeds to the Dallas fund, but refuses to reveal how much...