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...Reynold's masterpiece, but everybody will be glad to read his tribute to Gainsborough, whom he salutes as an artist unique in the XVIIIth century, who "saw and felt plastically." Even Macaulay's schoolboy must have been struck by the curious inability of the XVIIITH century to draw a Gothic tower that did not look "faked," perhaps Gainsborough's realism came from his scepticism about the validity of the laws of the school. "When Sir Joshua declared that the main mass of a picture could not be blue" he painted the "Blue Boy," perhaps his best-known work. Blake...
...become president emeritus. Wellesley girls of today know "Pres-Penn" as a handsome white-haired lady who glides about town & campus in an ancient electric automobile. To alumnae she is the doughty money-getter who buried the ashes of the College Fire of 1914 beneath tons & tons of Collegiate-Gothic building stone...
...Negro named A. (for Adam) Clayton Powell. After years of planning for a model church in Harlem, Pastor Powell began raising money in 1920, got 2,000 people to promise to give their church a tenth of their weekly earnings. Two years later ground was broken for a great Gothic-spired church. In triple-quick time the congregation paid off a $60,000 mortgage...
...wants was child's play for Librarian Ethelwyn Manning and her 30 assistants. She is prouder of the library's special services. The library has the finest collection of photographs of illuminated manuscripts in the world. Frick photographers have toured the Pyrenees taking pictures of Romanesque and Gothic paintings made long before Giotto was born. Over 1,000 portraits and miniatures have been photographed in private homes in Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Nantucket, Pittsburgh and Bermuda. The library is not too busy to recommend reading lists for ladies' clubs or, for a small...
Wood's theory of regional art rests upon the idea that different sections of the U. S. should compete with one another just as Old World cities competed in the building of Gothic cathedrals. Only thus he believes, can the U. S. develop a truly national art. Whether PWAP has sown the seeds of a national art no man can yet tell, but, beyond dispute, PWAP's investment has not only enormously stimulated the public's interest but has also revealed definite regional traits in art. Some of these districts and their characteristics...