Robert Selph Henry was a Southern historian of the War Between the States who constructed in separate works taken together a unified narrative of the period from the Mexican War to the end of Reconstr...
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Today is Wednesday, Aug. 22, the 234th day of 2007. There are 131 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 22, 1787, inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware...
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Its spacious lobby was the meeting place of politicians and oil-rich millionaires.Its guest rooms and restaurants bustled with the frenetic pace of freewheeling ranchers and drillers.Its banquet ro...
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It was the moment of which every artist dreams: his first solo show.Edward Hopper was ready.He'd sold his first painting, "Sailing," at the International Exhibition of Modern Art seven years earlie...
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The American painter Arnold Friedman (1874-1946) once groused about the “cadging—pettifogging [and] lickspittling” typical of the art scene of his day. Some verities are eternal.
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The American painter Arnold Friedman (1874-1946) once groused about the “cadging—pettifogging [and] lickspittling” typical of the art scene of his day. Some verities are eternal. ...
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No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, is an exhibition that manages two remarkable feats. It rescues Pollock the man (1912-1956) from the m...
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No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, is an exhibition that manages two remarkable feats. It rescues Pollock the man (1912-1956) from the m...
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Robert Selph Henry
Today in history - Aug. 22
