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Wyeth's largest retrospective show to date, 223 works, is currently on view in Philadelphia's 161-year-old Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.* At the opening, he received the academy's gold medal, the 36th winner in the train of artists like Winslow Homer, Whistler and Sargent, recalled: "I was twelve years old when my father first brought me to the academy, and I . . ." Then he could say no more and sat down...
...final word. And so it has always been the artist's task to report on the figures and events of his day, whether it be the hanging of a Savonarola in Florence or the thrust of the Civil War cavalryman's saber as seen by Winslow Homer...
...19th century U.S. painting. Whether seas of grass or prairies of briny waves, the American wilderness seemed to have only distant dimensions. The way to conquer that expanse was to shrink it to human scale and bring man to the foreground of the new nation's wide horizons. Winslow Homer set out to bring the American vista into focus...
Conversely, the Rev. Walter Brueggemann of Missouri's Eden Theological Seminary, a United Church of Christ minister, teaches Old Testament to nuns and laywomen studying theology at Roman Catholic Webster College near St. Louis, and an Episcopal priest, the Rev. Donald Winslow, is teaching early church history at Weston College, the Jesuit seminary near Boston. On the student level, seminaries are frequently nondenominational in fact, if not quite yet in name. Harvard's divinity school currently has 14 Catholic students, while Union has 17-including several priests and a nun. Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati has 28 Protestant...
Died. Bryan Winslow Newkirk, 77, Canadian financier, a North Carolina-born wheeler-dealer who promoted Quebec copper and Saskatchewan oil into a network of 61 companies with assets of $30 million, all of which made him a big man in Canada but a fugitive to the U.S. Government for his refusal to pay an estimated $400,000 in taxes on his across-the-border stock operations; of a heart attack; in London, England. Said Newkirk: "They can go to hell. I'm a Canadian citizen, and they can't touch me." Nor could they...