The job was simple: America needed home-grown art — not too much like Europe but not too different.1 It needed artists trained in European models to paint the local sites and take the local portraits; it needed institutions to collect and exhibit these local artists’ work; and it needed learning centers to present the European masterpieces to which the y…
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