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...National Park Service Jeeps, and one intrepid soul, Vincent Arcilesi, tethered his easel to the windy lip of the Grand Canyon to record on the spot its labyrinthine wrinkles. The results-78 paintings, first seen at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. -go on view at the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Conn., this July 4th under the title America 1976, and the show will tour U.S. museums for the next two years...
...just as interesting, maybe even more so." To prepare for "The New Nation," 18 researchers last November began tapping TIME'S own library but soon branched out for primary source materials to the Rare Book Room of the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the Boston Athenaeum and numerous other collections...
Also of Interest: "Pablo Picasso--Printmaker" through December 8 at the Museum of Fine Arts (Arborway subway to Northeastern stop). An exhibition of books on Hans Holbein's sixteen-frame woodcut "The Dance of Death", through Sept. 30 at the Boston Athenaeum, 10 Beacon St. In Boston. Photographs by Dadaist Man Ray in the Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley College, Sept. 30-Nov. 3. And, for all you frustrated peeping toms, photographs by Ron Galella, who is currently making a fortune off his new book on Jackie Onassis, at the Boston Harbor Campus of UMass, through October...
...take a look. One day he went to a sale at the Roxbury annex of the Boston Public Library. When he came back he told his brother, "I bought 30,000 books, and I bought the building, too." "Are you crazy?" said his brother. The building was the Fellows Athenaeum, where Edward Everett Hale was the first librarian. George Santayana lived next door to it and studied there. Mr. Starr used it as a warehouse until he got tired of patching up broken windows, and then he sold...
...other galleries were built earlier: Yale's Trumbull Gallery and the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Conn. The former is no more; the latter has incorporated the original into a larger building...