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Henry Bacon was well known as a designer of settings for sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel C. French. Among his many successes are the memorial to James McNeill Whistler in the West Point Library and the Marcus Alonzo Hanna monument at Cleveland. But his crowning achievement was the memorial to Lincoln. Here his profound knowledge of Greek architecture, coupled with his skill in adapting classic design to modern needs, produced possibly the most dignified piece of architecture in the country. Mr. Bacon was selected by the Fine Arts Commission in 1911 to design this important work...
...upper classes would be to insult their combined intelligences. All have heard of his celebrated bons mots, and a goodly proportion have probably attended at least one of his "evenings" in Hollis Hall. As well ask a cultivated Londoner if he has ever heard the name of James McNeil Whistler, or a Parisian if he is familiar with the works of Emile Zola. If there breathes a man who has been at Harvard for two years and still does not know of the hermit of Hollis Hall, he should be highly prized, for he is a rare growth...
Joseph Pennell charged that France, by not hanging Whistler's Mother in the Louvre (TIME, Jan. 21), has broken her promise to the dead artist...
According to Pennell, the picture, known as Arrangement in Gray and Black, was offered in America for $1,000 but found no buyer. Finally Whistler accepted the Legion of Honor, $620 in cash, and a promise that the picture would hang in the Louvre ten years after his death...
...have seen letters," said Pennell, "which mentioned the agreement made by Clemenceau. There was no doubt in Whistler's mind at the time he died that the picture would go to the Louvre...