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...gift of the Class of 1831 and "copy-right Duveneck and Barnhorn," the statue was placed in the building on May 25, 1905, Emerson's 100th birthday, when the building became the first in the United States devoted to the study of philosophy. Legend has it that Harvard men used to touch Emerson's protruding foot for good luck on their way to Emerson D for an exam...
Last week Arthur Leroy Bairnsfather of Birmingham, Ala. could not get over his surprise at what had happened down in Montgomery. A big, bushy-haired artist who once studied under Frank Duveneck (TIME, April 25), Mr. Bairnsfather never goes far afield for his subjects. Last summer he spent about 30 hours, smoked about 60 pipes, doing a brown and silver study of Dr. George Washington Carver, famed old Negro chemist at Tuskegee Institute. When the Southern States Art League, proud nurse of regional consciousness among artists from New Orleans to Charleston, held its 18th annual exhibition last month in Montgomery...
Nearly half of the 45 canvases exhibited at the Witney were from the Cincinnati Art Museum and most have not in 60 years been seen in the east. All but two were from Duveneck's best period, the 1870s and 1880s. During those years Duveneck was a famous expatriate with one of the largest followings among young painters that any U.S. artist has ever had. A big, Viking-bearded Bohemian who took the Munich Academy by storm at 21, then opened his own school in definace of it, Duveneck painted in the spirit of Frans Hals. In such paintings...
...Great Duveneck authority is Woodstock Artist Norbert Heermann, a onetime pupil, who wrote in his introduction to last week's exhibition: "The Painting of our first forgotten master realists, with their courageous technique and their rich, serious tonal quality of simple earth colors, have come into their own again
...paradox, however, that Duveneck's paintings seem more native to the "brown decades" in the U.S. than the paintings of some fo his stay-at-home contemporaries. he loved the brown pigment, bitumen, and it not only dulled his canvases but cracked extensively after a few years. His magnificently drawn and sometimes vivid portraits have the air of life in a darkened parlor, not the sunny tavern-and-haystack life which Duveneck and his pupils actually led. Artist Duveneck entered parlor society briefly in 1886 through his marriage to Elizabeth Boott, a refined Bostonian traveler straight out of Henry...