Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Macbeth, Act V, Scene...
...Royal Academy to U. S. painting. Canny New York dealers are hastily changing course, pushing French modernists aside to make way for native sons. Dinner hostesses are learning that they must consider Albert Ryder, Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer greater men than Anglophile John Singer Sargent. Last week the Macbeth Gallery, which has fought longer and more persistently than any other for the recognition of U.S. art, celebrated its 40th anniversary with a decorous jubilee...
...Gallery does not claim to be the first to show U. S. painting. As early as 1873 Newman Emerson Montross set aside a room for it back of his Manhattan paint store, but the Macbeth Gallery was indisputably the first to sell nothing but U. S. art. William Macbeth, a quiet little Irishman with a soft brown beard, arrived in the U. S. in 1871 and entered the art firm of Frederick Keppel &; Co. In 1892 he left to start his own gallery of U. S. art. It was a lean time for U. S. painters. Fifteen years earlier...
...wish I felt at liberty to name the single family of many members, with separate homes whose early purchases bridged the narrow margin between success and failure." Last week his son, rotund Robert Macbeth, admitted that they were the Pratts of Long Island. Other important collectors were persuaded to buy U. S. art by soft-spoken William Macbeth: Miss Lizzie Bliss, Hotelman Edwin A. McAlpin, Hugh D. Auchincloss, Financier Stephen V. Harkness. Collector Emerson McMillan had such a passion for pictures that he used to come in with a little red notebook and demand...
...Macbeth, what have you got that's 14½ inches high and 28 inches long. I've found a space where it will just...