Word: bravurist
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...over some other museums to its preference for the School of Paris, some observers have seen a taste trust in the making, and the Museum has acquired a small but respectably alert number of enemies. It has been attacked by progressives for showing the canvases of U.S. Bravurist John Singer Sargent, and (by Boston's Society for Sanity in Art) for corrupting the hinterlands with Picasso. Its hustling hospitality to Latin American art has been regarded as more than a hint at the policy-making power of former Museum President Nelson A. Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs...
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