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Ralph Curtis, Return from the Lido, 18__. Gardner Museum, Boston. Image: Wikipedia

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston: Five Favorites

The  Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a few blocks from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Isabella Stewart (b. 1840), daughter of a wealthy New York merchant, grew up in Manhattan…

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Hans Christian Andersen in Central Park

This post is adapted from the Guides Who Know app on Central Park. Artist: Georg John Lober Date: 1955 Medium & size: Bronze, over lifesize. Location: Central Park, on the…

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Saint Gaudens, The Puritan (Springfield, Mass.) – Part 3

This is the third in a series of posts on Saint Gaudens's Puritan, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Part 1 set out questions for you to consider when looking at the sculpture. Part 2…

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Kosciuszko Bridge Progress, 4

For earlier photos, see the Bridges tag in the Obsessions cloud at right. For a short time in the summer of 2017, the old and new Kosciuszko Bridges (1939 and…

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William Cullen Bryant Memorial, by Herbert Adams

This essay is adapted from Chapter 36 of Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide. I’ve kept cross-references to other chapters in the book. Outdoor Monuments has been "translated" into a fabulous app…

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“The City,” by Constantine Cavafy

I entered college with a year of Latin, three years of French, and writing skills that earned me a National Council of Teachers of English scholarship. What to take instead…

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