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...earth." For centuries, fabled islands populated by demigods, monsters or Arcadians had been part of the imagery of European legend, and the discovery of the South American Indian-lolling in a hammock, innocent of toil and tyranny, naked except for a bright girdle of macaw feathers, as imagined by Stradanus in 1589-seemed to confirm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Arcadian Vision | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...drawings, for which he has a good eye. His December exhibition makes the tenth anniversary of the gallery, quite an achievement in Cambridge, and it is one of the best. The show is made up largely of drawings from the sixteenth century on and includes fine examples attributed to Stradanus, Bercham, and Millais. His gallery also features prints and drawings by artists who have been over-looked by both history and inflation; drawings by late nineteenth century artists like Steinlen and Toorop are extremely interesting and very reasonably priced...

Author: By Theodore E. Stebbins jr., | Title: Galleries at Christmas: Abstraction and Reaction | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

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