Word: neoclassicism
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Faddists of the primitive were fascinated. For Miss Willson's paintings (of subjects like General Washington on Horse, The Prodigal Son Receiving His Patrimony, Riotous Living, Henry and His Pet Goat, Lovers) revealed a forthright, uninhibited graphic touch as clear and gay as sunlight. Typical was General Washington, decorative...
On the pediment of the neoclassic State Office Building at Sacramento is inscribed a line from a poem by the late Sam Walter FOSS: BRING ME MEN TO'MATCH MY MOUNTAINS. Visitors to the Governor's office frequently wonder if Earl Warren, California's 30th governor and...
Lines and the Line. The Memorial's neoclassic lines, drawn by the late John Russell Pope, are out of tune with the times. From afar, it appears compact, forbidding, lonely as a mausoleum. From hard by, it is too huge, too white, too coldly monotonous. Yet it will stand...
The city plan that the War Department was trying to upset was not the plan that Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant presented to President Washington in 1791, but it was still based on that celebrated original. For actually getting today's Washington built, Andrew Mellon was as responsible...
Two rooms in that ungainly, unfinished and unfilled neoclassic edifice sufficed to hold examples of almost all of Blake's work. No foreign loans were on hand because, alone among English artists of the first rank, Blake could be represented completely by loans from U. S. collections. Philadelphians were...