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Carefully chosen, the pictures gave a solid demonstration of Tradition in U. S. art. This Americanism was nothing grandiose: just a persistent modesty, candor and good workmanship. Despite all European influences, U. S. art kept its character through the work of the Colonial portraitists, the obscure artists of the Western...
In 1809, Miss Nancy Vanuxem, pretty debutante daughter of Philadelphia City Councilman James Vanuxem, swathed herself in cheesecloth draperies and stepped up on a model stand holding a stuffed bittern by the right leg. It was a unique occasion in the history of U. S. art. William Rush, the first...
At the turn of the Century and in the years that immediately followed, when John Singer Sargent was painting socialite portraits in the British manner, Henry James was preaching the superiority of European civilization, and Architect Stanford White felt that a copy of a Spanish Cathedral's bell tower...
Under the presidency of "Stog" Stokes, the Pennsylvania Museum has equired a $20,000,000 building, topped with a huge pink terra cotta Zeus, and collections with an estimated value of between $10,000,000 and $15,000,000. Besides a very respectable list of Old Masters, it includes New...
When Aristotle in The Nicomachean Ethics pointed out that boxers find "the crown and the honors" of victorious combat pleasant, but that "receiving the blows they do is painful and annoying to flesh and blood," he expressed an attitude toward pugilism that has been held by most of the writing...