Word: corcorans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Washington's Corcoran Gallery opened the liveliest art show the capital had seen in many a month. Its big, rambling "American Procession: 1492-1900" filled twelve galleries and six corridors, and was as exciting and various as the history it recounted. Moreover, there wasn't a painting that the average summer visitor couldn't grasp at first blink...
...eight months, 15 Corcoran staff members had scoured the U.S., made expeditions to Canada, Mexico and Europe to round up paintings, prints and Americana. In Paris they uncovered a 1775 mezzotint of A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton, N.C. emptying their tea caddies in protest against George III's unwelcome taxes. From Canada's National Gallery came Benjamin West's enormous, detailed...
...Corcoran's procession began majestically with Sebastiano del Piombo's Renaissance portrait of Columbus, ended with realistic turn-of-the-century studies of New York's lower East Side. Along the way there were pictures of battles and historic meetings done in the grand style...
After the intermission, though, the Yardling defense weakened, and Exeter, led by Tom Corcoran (four goals, two assists), John Fish (one goal, five assists), and Jim Felstiner (four goals, two assists) scored almost at will...
...attack matches the defense in ability. John Fish feeds shifty Tom Corcoran and creaseman Jim Felstiner. This trio went wild against Tufts, as Exeter racked...