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...Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Museum, it was charged, was willing to spend a quarter of a million for a Titian when it already owned several; its collection was appallingly weak in French Post-Impressionists; its interest in living U. S. painters seemed to have died with Winslow Homer. From all sides the suggestion loudly arose that Manhattan should have a museum comparable to the Luxembourg in Paris that could buy and exhibit modern paintings, not with the idea of preserving eternal masterpieces for the ages, but so that the public could see what living artists were producing. As with...
...Alfred Church Lane, 72, Tufts lost a distinguished geologist, onetime president of the Geological Society of America. Old Dr. Lane, well past the retirement age and eligible for a pension, observed that his fellow casualty ''has much more at stake." But Economist Earl Micajah Winslow, 39, a Mayflower descendant and a Quaker, will probably be welcomed as a martyr on the faculty of any university in the 22 states which have no teachers' oath...
From Boston and Brooklyn, from Chicago and Worcester, from a dozen private collectors, sheaves of water colors arrived at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries last week for an exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the most distinguished U. S. artist the gallery ever sponsored: Winslow Homer. It was a shrewd choice as a memorial exhibition. Greatly honored in his own lifetime, Winslow Homer certainly never thought of himself primarily as a watercolorist. Yet modern critics are generally agreed that the U. S. has produced only three men who could create virile, important work in what...
...Winslow Homer was born in Boston, son of a hardware dealer. When he was 19 he was apprenticed to a Boston lithographer named Bufford, who set him to work designing title pages for sheet music. Lithographer Bufford was a member of Father Homer's volunteer fire company...
...England for two summers, began the paintings of fishermen, ships and waves by which he is now best remembered. On his return he joined his family at Prout's Neck, Me., a village which his father was trying to develop as a summer resort. Always chary of company, Winslow Homer now became practically a hermit...