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...detailed images. He found a strong following among a group of Americans, who keenly imitated his no-frills style.The show displays a selection of Ruskin’s own drawings and watercolors, the works of two British artists he admired—Joseph Mallard William Turner and William Henry Hunt??and those by Americans whom he influenced, including Charles Herbert Moore, Henry Roderick Newman, and Joseph Lindon Smith.Opening with a group of rocky landscapes, the exhibit is organized thematically from architectural studies to fruit and flower still lifes. Ruskin’s work lies alongside those...
...Swanee Hunt??s “Half-Life of a Zealot” is written in the illustrious tradition of self-indulgent, self-congratulatory autobiography, but the book is strangely fascinating...
...Hunt??who is former US Ambassador to Austria, the heiress to an oil fortune, and the founding director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government—offers a fascinating glimpse into the bizarre lives of the outrageously wealthy. She tells the stories of her larger than life Texan childhood, her work as a champion of women’s issues and social justice, her stint as an ambassador, and her family life involving three children and two marriages...
...However, Hunt??s fortunes improved at the expense of her father’s first wife, who died after conceiving six children with the oil baron. Two years later, Ray married H.L. Hunt, 29 years her elder, and Swanee Wright became Swanee Hunt. Her family moved into a Dallas replica of George Washington’s Virginia mansion, Mt. Vernon...
Hunt is frank about the role wealth played in her career. “To be indelicate, money bought a seat at the table,” she writes. While it is hard not to sympathize with the career diplomats who resent her appointment, I admire Hunt??s candor...