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Alpers, fastest of the four and veteran of last year's team, will compete in the Ryder 440, before the mile relay. His resilience could be the key factor in tonight's relay race...
BETWEEN the U.S. Civil War and World War I, American painting was as vigorous and diverse as at any time in its history. Such artists as Eakins- Ryder, Inness and the young Glackens ranged across the field of art, from dreamy romanticism to meticulous realism. As Part II of its retrospective look at U.S. painting, TIME presents these four masters from the middle years of American history (see color pages). Their paintings are included in a show of American pictures from the Brooklyn Museum, on view this week at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries...
What the four had in common was honesty and joy in life. Otherwise, they were as different as artists can be. Albert Pinkham Ryder best expressed their common joy when he remarked that "the artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance." Thomas Eakins expressed their straightforwardness while teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. For insisting on using nude models in class, he was forced to resign. (Later, in one of his most famed paintings of a nude-overleaf-Eakins soberly included the chaperone...
Both men, the first an uncompromising romantic and the second a thoroughgoing realist, fortunately had simple tastes to match their small incomes. Ryder used to compare himself to an inchworm revolving on the end of a twig. The fact that he was able to take his time resulted in some of the richest painting ever done. Once, after 18 years of work on a picture, he said hopefully: "I think the sky is getting interesting." Eakins made only $15,000 (the price of a single Eakins canvas today) in all his years of painting, but he did have the appreciation...
...Dodgers eased their disappointment with checks for $6,178. ¶ At Belmont Park, John S. Phipps's three-year-old colt Level Lea won the $81,350 Jockey Club Gold Cup by six lengths in a slow 3:27 for the two miles. ¶[ In Paris, the U.S. Ryder Cup golf team, conquerors of the British fortnight ago, beat a team of continental pros, twelve matches to three...