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...represents. When it came to women, Rush's 19th century successors were even more gallant than he. John Rogers' Lost Pleiad shows American sculpture at its most blatantly sentimental. Daniel French's Memory is a matronly nude shown brooding about some lost and precious moment, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' golden Diana is as winsome as the larger original that once graced the top of the old Madison Square Garden...
...after the White Hun sacking of the 6th century A.D., Gandhara was swept from conqueror to conqueror. It was part of India for a while, and then came the Indo-Greek dynasties founded by the captains of Alexander the Great. The Scythians fought over it; Rome's Emperors Augustus, Trajan and Hadrian exchanged trade missions with it. Finally, in the 3rd century, the Persians took it over again. East and West clawed at Gandhara, and in the midst of the battles Gandhara's artists learned from both...
...friend when Wilde's homosexuality jostled him from society into Reading Gaol. During Oscar's trial, he advised him to escape to France-there was a yacht waiting, he said, with steam up in the Thames. (Shaw suspected the steam yacht was hot air, just as Painter Augustus John thought Harris' Rolls-Royce to be, "like Elijah's chariot, purely mythical.") When Oscar went to prison, Harris defied a savage social blockade to visit the ruined man, offered him ?500. There may have been genuine courage in his conduct, but typically, two days later, Harris withdrew...
...stay around a long time." Down on his North Carolina farm. Poet Carl Sandburg turned 82, allowed that he is hard at work on some stories, more poetry and a second volume of his autobiography. At his home in the English village of Fordingbridge, famed Sculptor-Painter Augustus John, looking slightly like a Dickensian rascal, contentedly chomped a cigar on his 82nd birthday, had great expectations of celebrating many more...
...lavender-tinted gloves, his white forelock setting off Italianate good looks, Whistler cultivated an exotic showmanship to mask self-doubts about his craft. The company he kept added a satanic touch by being mad, neurasthenic, and sexually deviate or profligate. The most colorful of the odd lot was Charles Augustus Howell. One of his exploits was to dig up the coffin of Elizabeth Rossetti by moonlight to retrieve a manuscript her grieving husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, had buried with the body. Howell housed his wife, a bevy of artistically inclined mistresses, and half a dozen children under the same roof...