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...Pennsylvania Academy awards, by contrast, are given to established artists invited by the Academy's jury to enter, and to "over the transom" entries from unknowns as well. The Temple Gold Medal, won this year by Stuart Davis and in earlier decades by such luminaries as Whistler, Eakins and Homer, carries no cash but a mintful of prestige. The aim of the show, according to Director Joseph Fraser, is to "give Philadelphia art lovers a chance to see a cross section of what's going on in the art world-a look at all the trends." Juries...
Muddling Through Brilliantly. The Tate's early troubles came from subordination to the trustees of the 140-year-old National Gallery and members of the stodgy Royal Academy, which had managed to be hostile in turn to Constable, Turner, Whistler, the Pre-Raphaelites, French impressionism and most everything else that subsequently mattered. "Mal à la Tate," punned a peeved Punch. At first the trustees forced the stepchild Tate to accept Victorian tearjerkers that no one will even borrow today. The Tate did not succeed in winning its complete autonomy from the National Gallery until...
Meanwhile, her reputation as a patron of the arts grew. Mrs. Gardner began to acquire paintings--and a coterie of artists. Whistler once inscribed a book to his friends Mrs. Gardner "whose appreciation of the work of Art is equalled only by her understanding of the artist...
Jacques Callot, Piranesi, Goya and Whistler. The largest collection of Ensor's other art ever assembled in the U.S., a selection of 78 graphics, is now on view at Manhattan's Associated American Artists Galleries...
...subject, and related in some way to the White House or the presidency, or at least to some sector of the Federal Government. But the selection committee has made exceptions to include a few foreign paintings of U.S. subjects and U.S. paintings of foreign subjects. The James McNeill Whistler oil of London's waterfront was chosen because it is a great Whistler. Scottish Painter John Syme's oil of John James Audubon was purchased because it is a fine portrait. An early acquisition was a pencil-and-sepia drawing, The Apotheosis of Franklin, by the French painter Jean...