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...leading American artists of Revolutionary days, only Charles Willson Peale stayed to witness the stirring events that led to victory. Benjamin West, already an established London painter by 1775, preferred to remain in England. John Trumbull at 19 was an aide-de-camp to Washington and had viewed the battle on Bunker's Hill through field glasses from his post in Roxbury, but he resigned his commission in a huff and later departed for London. Gilbert Stuart, then 19, got away in the spring of 1775 aboard the last ship to escape the embargo in Boston Harbor. John Singleton...
...exhibit came close to being a Who's Who of American painting, sweeping from Charles Willson Peale, the academy's founder, and Benjamin West (first honorary member) to the Maine water-colors of the late (1953) John Marin. Included were the works of such figures as George Caleb Bingham, Mary Cassatt (only U.S. painter of the French impressionist movement), the meticulous realist William Harnett, and five artists of the famed "Ashcan School" of realism-Robert Henri, George Luks, Everett Shinn, John Sloan and William Glackens. Before the exhibition was under way, the U.S. Information Agency began making plans...
...Charles Willson Peale was a sensitive little man with a long, thin nose, wide and bright blue eyes, an imposing store of energy. One of the few artists to fight in the American Revolution, he painted dozens of its heroes-four in the portraits opposite. He also inspired a whole family of artists, who will be honored next week with a comprehensive exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Star of the show will be gentle Charles himself, yet painting was only one of his talents...
Hindsight. In Pittsburgh, Judge Joseph P. Willson disallowed the Pennsylvania Railroad's plea that Gandy Dancer Jesse Q. Casso had obtained his job under false pretenses, ruled that it was the railroad's fault for giving Casso a rating of 20-30 vision in his glass right...
Philip H. Rhinelander, Director of General Education, moderated the forum on "The Objectives of a Liberal Education," and the speakers, in addition to MacLeish, were McGeorge Bundy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Bart J. Bok, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy...