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...project, to be built on-a 31-acre site in Boston's Back Bay area near Copley Square, will transform a gritty industrial area into a modern metal-and-glass city-within-a-city. Much of it will be built over the train yards of the Boston & Albany Railroad. Huge pilings will be driven into the ground to form a foundation for the project's centerpiece: a $50 million skyscraper, 50 stories tall, 40% of which will be used by Prudential for its regional headquarters. Around its huge tower, the Pru will also build a complex of airy...
...loudly as I went. When I got back, her eyes were glazed, but she had gamely propped herself up with her elbows. I decided to try to stick it out until the deadline. I mentioned Samuel Beckett. She quoted Samuel Beckett. Finally we went, but still it was awful. Copley Peale...
...evidence shows, too, that realism in art can be the precise opposite of stodginess. True realism rises to the challenges of continual change, visible and invisible. It showed its strength in the guardians at the gates of American painting history. Copley and Benjamin West, who studied a new breed of men with fresh eyes. When West first saw the famed Apollo Belvedere in Rome, he cried out: "My God, how like a Mohawk warrior!" And as John Adams said in describing Copley's immortal gallery of founding fathers: "You can scarcely help discoursing with them, asking questions and receiving...
What Hopper has been able to do, he would never admit. He has opened a whole new chapter in American realism, painting a new world never before pictured. Where Copley created a world of men, Cole a world of nature, and Homer a world of struggle between the two. Hopper paints the raw, uneasy world that Americans have built on this land...
Next week, in the Christmas issue, TIME will open another gallery in that American wing with a special eight-page color portfolio of works by American artists, from John Singleton Copley and the painting Peale family (see cut) to Edward Hopper...