Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum will inherit the show Jan. 29. In the exhibition catalogue, the Metropolitan's Albert Ten Eyck Gardner advances a theory on the evolution of Homer's style that might have startled Henry James. Realist though Homer is. says Gardner, he probably got his great inspiration from the same source that sparked the School of Paris: Japanese prints. Homer lived in Paris in 1867, must have been aware of the fashion for things Japanese, which had already led Manet to simplify, sharpen and contract his pictured scenes. Homer inwardly resolved to do the same...
Philadelphian William Gardner Smith, author of Last of the Conquerors, a study of Negro G.I.s in Germany, lives in a working-class quarter in Paris where Americans are seldom seen. He feels that in the U.S. "one wastes too much time being angry. Life here is more natural, more leisurely. In discussions with French people, they never say, 'How do you, a Negro, see this?' They simply ask, 'How do you see it?' In Paris you forget the color of your skin...
...free country. Then there are my daughters. They are receiving an excellent education in France." What of the danger of getting out of touch with U.S. life? Snaps Wright: "The Negro problem in America has not changed in 300 years." Other Negro writers are not so sure. William Gardner Smith confesses that "the biggest problem I have is missing my roots. I've no intention of writing about France, much as I like France. It's not my homeland. But if I'm going to be writing about the States, something may be wrong, little nuances...
...Isabella Stewart Gardner of Boston was a plain Jane with weird endearing ways. All men were apparently fascinated by her. To Bernard Berenson, who constantly advised her on what to buy, she was "the Serpent of the Charles [River]." To T. Jefferson Coolidge she was "Aphrodite with a lining of Athene." Henry James wrote to her about "those evenings at your board and in your box, those tea-times in your pictured halls [which] flash again in my mind's eye as real life-saving stations." To her patient husband she was simply "Busy Ella...
...Gardner made it her business to set Boston impolitely on its ear. Such a concentric society, she reasoned, would appreciate eccentricity. She chartered a locomotive for a picnic, led a lion on a leash, drank beer at "pop" concerts, and once, during Lent, donned sackcloth and scrubbed the steps of Boston's Church of the Advent. Meanwhile she kept buying pictures, and putting her servants on short rations so that she could do it. Her greatest caprice, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is a Venetian palazzo on The Fenway in the midst of Boston, containing some of the world...