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The collection of 185 paintings and 220 prints, on loan from 75 museums and private collectors, combines a sense of the history and the quality oof American art. The exhibit ranges from the earliest beginnings, with reproductions of 16th century prints done by post-Columbian explorers, to recent abstract paintings...
Sobering afterthoughts were two other exhibitions staged by the Corcoran. In one salon were hung 24 past winners, ranging from little-known Willard L. Metcalf's moonlit May Night to John Hult-berg's Yellow Sky (TIME, May 2, 1955), and including Childe Hassam, George Bellows and Edward...
"I've Seen That!" With Thomas Cole's founding of the "Hudson River School." the emphasis in U.S. art shifted from people to nature. Cole's Arcadian views, seemingly observed through a dusty brass telescope, opened the way for a score of great artists who wedded themselves...
Edward Hopper's works, being of the present, are the most immediately "recognizable" of all. Hopper feels closer to Eakins than to any of his other predecessors, though he considers that "Eakins had much more humanity than I do." It is true that the people in Hopper's...
Significantly, the Yale exhibit also shows that U.S. collectors, long accustomed to taking their cue from abroad, have not neglected the home front. Nearly half the exhibitors had American paintings on show. Among them: such recognized American masters as Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins and Albert Ryder, and a sampling of...