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...exhibition consists of 110 works, from Copley's youth to Winslow Homer's age. They were chosen by a committee headed by Boston Art Historian Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., with assistance from the Louvre's chief curator of paintings Pierre Rosenberg. There are some unavoidable absences and a few awkward or campy presences (like John Quidor, the corny illustrator of Washington Irving's tales, or Edward Ashton Goodes, whose excruciating Fishbowl Fantasy, 1867, is crammed with everything that was worst in the taste of Victorian America). Still, it is hard to see how the difficult task...
...transplanted Texan with an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, Williams says that "art collecting is my great sickness." Alliance's Manhattan headquarters resembles a museum, its long corridors full of drawings and etchings by such American masters as Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper. While working as a chemical engineer at Esso (now Exxon) in 1959, Williams started a collection of Saudi Arabian stamps...
...girded by icebergs, some the size of mountains, others smaller,...all tossed and churned by gutsy winds and unpredictable heavy seas"; Heinrich and Sophia Schliemann, "a quixotic archaeologist with a beautiful wife directing a hundred and fifty rebellious workmen on the exotic Turkish landscape" to find the ruins of Homer's Troy...
Writers in ancient times were fascinated by Sardis. According to legend, the city was founded by sons of Heracles after the Trojan War. In the Iliad, Homer writes of the city "beneath the snowy Tmolus in the rich land of Hyde." The poet Sappho laments that she cannot obtain the colorful Lydian hat of Sardis for her daughter Cleis. The historian Herodoturs relates that when Cyrus the Great captured Sardis for the Persians after a siege in 547 B.C., he ordered that the vanquished Croesus be burned alive on a funeral pyre. (Croesus survived when Apollo intervened by sending...
...those like my father, a neighborhood doctor, to whom the kids brought underfed cats and crippled birds, and shy Mr. Platt who led us around on Halloween, and blind Mr. Chevigny who wrote of his seeing-eye dog in a bestseller, My Eyes Have a Cold Nose, and Mr. Homer, who had a booming Bostonian voice with which he asked every child over the age of six: "When do you plan to enroll at Harvard?" On the floor above ours in No. 36 lived three spinster ladies, Miss Prescott, Miss Cutler and Miss Jourdan, who would hire...