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Bellows studied at the New York School of Art under Robert Henri, the American realist disciple of Frans Hals and Edouard Manet. "My life begins at this point," he said of his apprenticeship to Henri. He soon developed a tough, pragmatic repertoire based on realist drawing and tonal composition. He was by far the most gifted younger member of the Ashcan School, a loose group that included John Sloan, George Luks and William Glackens. Not one of them ever painted an ash can, but they did believe, in a general way, that the artist should work from life...
Genzyme's president, Henri Termeer, said at the time that the lack of a definitive pro-business stance in Cambridge made the company uneasy...
...French naturalist Henri Mouhot came upon an enchanting temple buried in the jungle of western Cambodia. It thrust spires of finely carved sandstone into the sky, and its open galleries held an artistic treasure: more than a mile of delicate bas-relief stone panels. "It is grander than anything left us by Greece and Rome," wrote Mouhot in his diary...
...retrospective of some 170 paintings, prints and drawings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, after an earlier run at London's Hayward Gallery, rounds off the great series of overviews of 19th century French artists given us by French, American and English museums over the past 15 years. Every one of these -- Manet, Courbet, Cezanne, Seurat, Monet, even the disappointing Renoir -- has altered the way one thinks about the achievements of French art and deeply revised one's view of the individual painters. The Toulouse-Lautrec show, curated by an English art historian, Richard Thomson, and two French ones, Claire Freches...
...black and white, believe Taylor and her allies have badly misplaced New Orleans' priorities at a time when crime, housing and other ills are at a peak. "The city's falling apart, and they go after one of the few things that are still really working," complained float designer Henri Schindler. Agreed carnival historian Errol Laborde: "We were just getting over the David Duke mess, and this hits. This has turned brother against brother for no good reason...