Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, Allison had its newest secret, the world's most powerful aircraft engine, on display in G. M.'s Building on New York's World's Fair grounds for all to see. Because it was displayed as casually as Poe's purloined letter, few visitors paid any attention...
...show successfully showed that U. S. artists have done well by their country. Its catalogue, also, was a triumph, as few exhibition catalogues ever are (see col. 1). Slight, scholarly A. (for Alpheus) Hyatt Mayor, Associate Curator of Prints, and efficient Josephine Lansing Allen, an assistant curator of paintings, put it together with sparkling good sense and humor. For each picture they provided background information, illuminating quotations, graceful homilies. In their observations on portraits of the late John D. Rockefeller (by John Singer Sargent) and J. P. Morgan (by Carlos Baca-Flor), they achieved a tone of perfect respect...
...Metropolitan's own trap for visitors to the New York World's Fair, the exhibition will stay open until October 29. Notable U. S. paintings which many a U. S. citizen will see for the first time...
...Traders Descending the Missouri (see cut, p. 63), painted about 1845 by George Caleb Bingham...
Emigrant Train (1870) by Samuel Colman (see cut, p. 63). "A train of Conestoga wagons is shown fording Medicine Bow Creek, near Laramie, Wyoming...