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Artistically, the show's most impressive items were the Houdon portrait busts of Franklin, Voltaire, Lafayette and John Paul Jones, and an allegorical engraving of Franklin's genius by Jean Honore Fragonard. Paintings began with Harvard's stiff, colonial portrait of Franklin at about the age of...
Museum feet is an occupational disease to which all critics are prone. In Manhattan last week the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented a sure solace for weary arches. In one gallery, subdivided for the occasion into three formal rooms, it presented 58 pictures and 60 statues which comprised the most...
Potter Palmer built his mansion for Mrs. Bertha Honore Palmer, a Kentucky belle, out of a fortune he had made in the dry-goods business and plowed back into a mile of State Street real estate. In its day it cost more than $1,000,000 and was generally considered...
The moment the house was finished it became the social capital of Chicago. About it and Bertha Honore Palmer, firmly enthroned in her own Italian hall, sprang up a vast folklore. One famed Chicago social organization once had the temerity to entertain simultaneously with Mrs. Palmer but only a society...
Only once did Mrs. Palmer let down the bars. Managing her Son Honore's campaign for a seat on the City Council, she shrewdly invited 500 members of the 21st Ward Marching Club to the Castle. More at home in West Side brothels and saloons, they arrived behind a...