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Fogg Museum's "highbrow lot" have indicated partiality towards Van Leyden's "cool, subtle" Angel, according to the current issue of Time Magazine. The painting is the most recent entry in Time's long list of public favorites...
Time's editor notes that, "The most notable quality in his (Van Leyden's) paintings is their daylight luminosity." They describe the painter at 33 as "rich and famous enough to make a triumphal tour of the Low Countries, dressed in a shining yellow suit, giving great banquets for the local artists...
Commenting on his paper, Professor L. J. van Holk of the University of Leyden, Holland, pointed out that the growth of empiricism coincided with the eighteenth century enlightenment and the rise of liberalism...
Finally he launched into a campaign of speeches on every lecture platform he could find, including that of the Roman Catholic parochial school system, whose superintendent, Father Edward Leyden, was plagued with building shortages of his own. He used no oratory, but he had a load of facts & figures to throw at his audiences in talks of precisely 15 minutes. In 16 years, said he, Denver had built enough new schools for only 2,500 pupils, but enrollments had gone up 10,000 . . . More than 5,000 pupils were in schools over 60 years old ... more than...
...Their ignorance of the United States," he said, "is probably as deep rooted as our ignorance of Dutch history." Although he has outlined no special program, Professor Schlesinger anticipates that he will have to stress fundamentals in his course at Leyden...