The story of Pittsburgh: Education

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

Document type:: Multivolume work

Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623714

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-241132

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Education

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 14

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: [ca. 80] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Department of fine arts

Collection:: Economics Books

art of Spain. Contemporary Italian painters are represented by Ettore Tito and Italico Brass. Of the many fine examples of American art included in the collection, only a few can be mentioned here. The “Portrait of Sarasate,”” by James A. McNeill Whistler; the “Portrait of Henry Nicols,”’ by Gilbert Stuart; “ My Child- ren,” by Abbott H. Thayer; “ Mother and Child,” by George de Forest Brush; “The Wreck,” by Winslow Homer; “River in Winter,” by John H. Twachtman; “ Afternoon near Ark- ville, New York,” by Alexander H. Wyant are all paintings which are representative of the best in American art. A collection of bronze statues and objects, reproductions of the bronzes from Pompeii and Herculaneum, casts of figures and reliefs by Saint-Gaudens, French, MacMonnies, Rodin, Barnard, MacNeil, and many others, for the most part contemporaries, and a large collection of photographs of the monuments and temples of Greece are also presented for exhibition in this department. Among the possessions of the Carnegie Institute are large and important collections of rare prints, including an exceptionally complete collection of American wood engrav- ing, groups of etchings by Charles Meryon and James A. McNeill Whistler, the “English Landscape Series” by John Lucas after Constable, and a collection of Japanese prints. The Institute also owns an important collection of original drawings, in which the fifty-eight drawings by Anton Mauve and forty-eight by old masters form notable groups. It is only possible to exhibit small groups of these prints, engrav- ings, and drawings occasionally, since the exhibition gal- leries are almost continuously occupied by the permanent collection of paintings and by current exhibitions. In addition to its permanent collections, the department seeks to arouse interest in the consideration of the modern evolution of art, its new trends, tendencies, and diverse manifestations. Therefore, throughout the year the depart- ment places before the public through special exhibitions many examples of the various phases and styles of achieve- ment and experiments of the best modern art. First of all in importance among the special exhibitions is the annual International Exhibition of Paintings which has

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