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...Mary Cassatt remarked that "he could have taught stones to draw correctly...
...Edmund Lynch was the first of Merrill's many partners, who over the years included Edward Pierce, Anthony Cassatt, Charles Fenner, Alpheus Beane and Winthrop Smith. Cassatt's name was dropped from the firm's name in 1941, and Smith replaced Beane...
...Institute of Contemporary Art until Aug. 31, is in many ways an excellent summer show: refreshing and nostalgic by turns, more amenable than audacious, and most of it no more problematic than a scoop of lemon sherbet on a hot day. It consists of 133 works. Some, like Mary Cassatt's delicately unsettled, Jamesian glimpse of social manners, A Cup of Tea, 1880, are of memorable quality. But, in general, the level wobbles. The fault is not in the selection: Art Historian William Gerdts, who organized the show (first seen last winter in Seattle), is a ranking authority...
...problem is simply that except for Cassatt, none of the Americans whose work reached toward what was being done in Paris by Monet, Renoir, Degas or Pissarro could consistently perform on a high level. They saw what the French saw; they studied in Paris; some of them even painted the flowers in Monet's garden at Giverny, with the assiduity of students doing the Roman ruins a century before. They were not trivial or maladroit. Yet charm, rather than inspiration, remained the order of the day. No wonder that Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase, Edmund Tarbell, John Twacht...
...business together since 1975, and everything had apparently gone smoothly. According to the affidavit filed by Benedek, he had invested heavily in three separate partnership deals arranged by Straw. One was to purchase a collection of antique furniture. The second was to buy eleven paintings that included a Mary Cassatt and a Winslow Homer. The third involved a spectacular $15 million group of 31 old masters and French impressionists, including a Rembrandt, a Titian, two Renoirs and three rare Seurats. Benedek said he put up $1.5 million for a half share in the first two deals and more than...