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...long been his special target. In 1928 he published his best known book Ananias, or the False Artist, in which he performed the not too difficult feat of denting the reputations of such painters as Edwin Howland Blashfield, Ignacio Zuloaga, Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema. Emanuel Leutze, the creator of Waslington Crossing the Delaware, and the society portraits of John Singer Sargent (like most critics Walter Pach has respect for the Sargent water colors). He tore into the critics who had praised them, the museums, particularly the Metropoli- tan Museum of Art, that bought them. A week later he gave...
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