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Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna about his and Edith’s continuing honeymoon through Italy. He and Edith are enjoying the sights and artwork.
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Several artists identified as “Lawrence, Gainsborough, D. Teniers, Rubens, Raphael, Da Vinci, Titian, Duerer, Velasquez, Van Dyke, Reni”, and the friar Girolamo Savonarola as “S,” are being held in a holding pen labeled “Prohibitive Tariff on Art” at Ellis Island Immigration Station.
The year 1908 was a watershed year in American fine art. It was little recognized at the time — as cultural paradigm shifts seldom are — nor today, but the perceptual revolution attributed to 1913 and the landmark Armory Show in New York City sprouted from seeds planted in 1908. The Post-Impressionist and Expressionists known as “The Eight” and “The Ashcan School” collectively mounted an exhibition at New York’s Macbeth Gallery. Their work was in rebellion against academic painting, and in their ranks were several cartoonists, including William J. Glackens, whose brother Louis was on the staff of Puck.