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Officials at Widener Library are trying to determine if the same art thieves who have plagued a number of Eastern colleges are responsible for the Winslow Homer woodcut prints missing from 19th century magazines in its collection...
Died. Margaret Leighton, 53, twice a Tony Award winner (for Separate Tables, 1956, and The Night of the Iguana, 1962), whose stage and screen career stretched over 35 years and included such successful films as The Winslow Boy and The Go-Between in which the willowy, blonde English actress starred in her usual elegant style; while under treatment for multiple sclerosis; in Chichester, England...
...novel is carefully framed between 1902 and 1917, surrounding the robust, unambiguous patriotism of Teddy Roosevelt and the complex, brooding morality of Woodrow Wilson. It was Winslow Homer time, when, as Doctorow writes, "a certain light was still available along the Eastern seaboard." Eccentrics still putter in their garages and produce inventions without the aid of research-and-development bureaucracies. Henry Ford's new assembly line and Albert Einstein's peculiar idea that the universe is curved crack the dawn of the modern age. Before long, Doctorow notes, painters in Paris will be putting two eyes...
ECHO OF A DISTANT DRUM: WINSLOW HOMER AND THE CIVIL...
...Fogg has a lovely little exhibit of American watercolors tucked away in one of its back galleries that includes works by Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent. The Fogg doesn't really do all that much special with American art, especially non-contemporary works, all the more reason not to miss this treat. The museum's PR person, Janet Cox, says her art friends all think that the Fogg's Homers and Sargents are as good as the ones hanging in the MFA, and Janet wouldn't try to fool you. The exhibit has to come down soon because...