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Like Lane, English-born Thomas Birch also delighted in painting harbors and coasts. Brought to America in 1794 when he was only fifteen, Birch settled in Philadelphia and immediately went to work with his father, an accomplished engraver and painter of enamels. Although he was never a sailor. Birch had a profound feeling for the structure and beauty of ships. In a View of the Harbor of Philadelphia from the Delaware River, Birch shows that he understood even better the element they travel in. Although his seascapes varied -some being stormy and violent-this harbor view is marked...
...London livery stable." "Can any biography," said Emerson, "shed light on the localities into which the Midsummer Night's Dream admits me? Did Shakespeare confide to any notary or parish recorder, sacristan, or surogate, in Stratford, the genesis of the delicate creation?" And George Steiner, writing of Painter's biography of Proust, said that it was so explicit, gave so many details of Proust's life that bore directly on A la recherche du temps perdu, that no reader of the biography could possibly respond to the novel in a fresh and unprejudiced...
...dealer and his client. But many a famous collector has left Salz's town house poorer by tens of thousands of dollars but richer by a prime Degas, Vuillard, Corot or Monet. As a young man in Paris in the early years of this century, Salz was a painter him self. "Not a great painter like these," he says, waving a hand toward the Segonzacs, Vlamincks and Van Dongens that line his walls. "But I was a friend of all the 20th century artists." The works of these friends were assembled by him for Actor Edward G. Robinson...
...could think -"the lady with brains," as he described his heroine in The Egoist. Meredith married one himself-the daughter of another comic novelist, Thomas Love Peacock. She collaborated with him on a study of the art of cookery, bore him a son, then deserted him for a painter...
...Metropolitan Museum. As a student at the Art Students League, he became aware of the dilemma that Malevich and Mondrian had left their successors: where to go from white on white and skin-and-bones geometry? "Painting is finished, we should all give it up," he told a friend, Painter Adolph Gottlieb. World War II added a new dimension to his personal crisis. "How can you continue painting guys playing the fiddle, flowers and sweetness when the world is blowing itself up?" he asked...