Word: florilegium
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...short even of major works by women whose historical significance has been admitted for decades. Its inaugural show, American Women Artists 1830-1930, consisted mainly of loans; but even so, except for some paintings by Cecilia Beaux, Romaine Brooks and, of course, O'Keeffe, it was a dull florilegium of derivative kitsch. Who would waste ten minutes on these sub-Sargent portraits, these mincing imitations of Childe Hassam, these genre scenes crawling with dimpled rosy brats, if they had not been painted by American women? And what serious artist wants gender to be the primary classification...
...STORY OF SECRET SERVICE-Richard Wilmer Rowan-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Fat (720-page), fascinating florilegium of spies, real and apparent, "going up and down the backstairs of history" since Moses' day; busiest, softest footsteps, says Spy-Catcher Rowan, were England...
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