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You may remember the recent story in TIME's ART section, describing an exhibition of the favorite 20th century American paintings of seven art critics (TIME, Feb. 25). "The art critics of New York are not without courage," said a New York Herald Tribune review of the show. "One...
¶ The Metropolitan staged a fine exhibition in honor of Manhattan's Art Students League, which has helped shape U.S. art for 75 years. The Met showed 75 artists who had worked at the league, including such long-dead greats as Thomas Eakins and George Bellows. Masterpieces such as...
But the temperas, mostly records of the Pennsylvania countryside and Maine seacoast he knows best, are Wyeth's chief work. The worst of them look unnecessarily labored, but the best make him a candidate for the mantle of the great Pennsylvania realist Thomas Eakins. That dour master specialized in...
Besides gleanings for the curious, there was some good art: early genre studies by Winslow Homer, William Glackens' moveing paintings of the Spanish-American War, and Thomas Eakins' The Agnew Clinic, 1889, a monumental study of an operation in an early hospital. There was even a small painting...
Hung in chronological order, the show went back to the 19th Century masters who had lived on beyond the turn of the century. Ranged against their contemporaries and followers of the last 50 years, they still ranked with the best the U.S. has produced. Two of them-Whistler and Sargent...