Word: eakinses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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One of man's greatest challenges is facing himself; in today's portraiture the encounter has become stranger and stranger. Freed from the chore of sticking slavishly to the surface likeness, the artist today is free to probe more than skin-deep. The result often produces a psychological...
The museum's attendance-45,000 on Sunday alone-might be honor enough, but Rorimer, nearing his tenth anniversary as director, is far from finished with his dreaming. Last week's fete will hardly be the Met's last supper. He announced plans for a $4,000...
The Pennsylvania Academy awards, by contrast, are given to established artists invited by the Academy's jury to enter, and to "over the transom" entries from unknowns as well. The Temple Gold Medal, won this year by Stuart Davis and in earlier decades by such luminaries as Whistler, Eakins...
A New Pride. Mrs. Kennedy has not yet by any means acquired all the paintings she wants for the White House. The collection includes no John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer or Thomas Eakins. But the paintings already acquired constitute a priceless national heritage.
Anshutz got his training at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under the redoubtable Thomas Eakins. He became Eakins' assistant, and when Eakins left in 1886, Anshutz moved in as teacher. For the three years before he died in 1912, he was head of the academy.