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...Whistler v. Picasso. "Perhaps," says Viereck, "every 20 years, the eternal Babbitt dons a new name and a new mask." Old George Babbitt would speak smugly of "boosting and flag-waving and hating slackers and reds, and hating such longhair stuff as culture." Young Gaylord just as smugly pretends to revel in art and culture, thinks "nothing more wonderful than defying middle-class conventions." And his wife "can't stand those barbaric middle-class businessmen...
Hung in chronological order, the show went back to the 19th Century masters who had lived on beyond the turn of the century. Ranged against their contemporaries and followers of the last 50 years, they still ranked with the best the U.S. has produced. Two of them-Whistler and Sargent-had been polished expatriates whose works reflected London and London society with all the elegance and sheen of an opera hat. Landscapist Winslow Homer and Philadelphia Portrait Painter Thomas Eakins, who stayed at home, painted with a directness and clarity that no U.S. artist has yet surpassed...
There were seven men in the band, but they just happened to like the name Firehouse Five Plus Two. On the stand they wore red shirts, white suspenders and ancient leather firemen's helmets. They played standing up and they irreverently displayed a reproduction of Whistler's Mother when they honked out You've Got to See Mamma Ev'ry Night or You Can't See Mamma at All in a solid two-beat, flatfoot jazz style...
...horsehair watch chains. He made a fiddle and played at dances ("I really could bow!"). He sketched constantly, finally got to art school at 31, attended both night & day classes and won a gold medal. His instructors, he remembers, were reluctant even to discuss such subjects as "that modern Whistler." He made a success illustrating Wild West magazine stories, gave it up some 30 years ago to experiment with the freewheeling painting he does now. To live while he learned he "made frames for other artists who were selling...
...years of this century. Starting as a cigar and soap-label designer in the '90s, Alfy decided by the age of 30 that art was more important than a good living; he lit out for Paris. Soon he was painting competent, easy-to-take hybrids of Sargent and Whistler, and with them winning prizes and acclaim. With An Arrangement, a low-keyed study of a girl in shirtwaist and skirt kneeling on an oriental carpet, he pulled down the fattest plum the U.S. had to offer an artist, $1,500 and a gold medal for the best painting...