Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Raise the Umbrella. Around 1830, the rise of Jacksonian democracy created a new pride in the rural American scene, and artists began flocking outdoors to record it. A group of writers backed up and inspired the painters' nature worship: James Fenimore Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, John Greenleaf Whittier and William Cullen Bryant ("Go forth, under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings"). Painter Thomas Cole listened closely to the exhortations of his friend Bryant, trudged up the Hudson River with easel and umbrella to paint the wild Catskills, and founded the so-called Hudson River school...
...concerts or theater-in-the-round, and floodlights etching the surrounding trees-hemlock, white pine, maple and cherry. The Empire State Music Festival was ready for business. The opening concert (Beethoven and Brahms) was conducted by Holland's standout Eduard van Beinum; the next night a U.S. conductor, Emerson Buckley, led a setless but fresh-sounding La Boheme. Planned later this season: Shakespeare's Tempest, with the rarely heard incidental music by Jean Sibelius. Wrote the New York Times's Howard Taubman: "The Berkshires have a major festival [at Tangle-wood]. Now the Catskills. Every mountain range...
...exerts a peculiar fascination for 20th century connoisseurs: more than 400 studies of him have been published since 1914. The National Gallery has always been weak in German art (as are most galleries west of the Rhine) but the Kress gifts will change all that. According to Guy Emerson, vice director of the Kress Foundation, Grünewald's Crucifixion will dominate "the finest room of German paintings outside of Germany...
...Emerson's: "The greatest enterprise both for splender and scope is the building...
...other winners from here and their fields include: John P. Emerson 8G, economics and the Japanese language; Joseph W. Elder 1G, South Asian studies and sociology; Joseph B. Grieder 1G, Chinese language and history; Harold L. Kahn 1G, Chine language and polities; and Gilbert D. Totten 1G, research on the recent history of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...