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Great Exhibition
Great Exhibition. The first international industrial exhibition ever held, open to the public from 1 May to 11 October 1851 in Hyde Park, London; its full title was ‘The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, 1851’. Prince Albert was chairman of the committee that... Read more |
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Hughie Lee-Smith
Hughie Lee-Smith 1915– Artist, educator At a Glance… Gravitated Toward Artistic Group in 1940s Painted Murals on African Americans in History for U.S. Navy Style Evolved From Realism to Surrealism Brush Captured Racial and Urban Isolation Selected works Sources Like his paintings,... Read more |
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Elie Nadelman
Elie Nadelman , 1882-1946, Polish-American sculptor, b. Warsaw. He spent some time in Paris and is said to have influenced Picasso. Before he settled (1914) in the United States his work was exhibited in New York City at the Armory Show in 1913. His gracefully rounded sculptures, most often in... Read more |
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Diana Vreeland
Diana Vreeland (Diana Dalziel), 1906-89, American fashion editor and consultant, b. Paris. In 1937, she joined Harper's Bazaar, becoming fashion editor in 1939. In 1963, she moved to Vogue magazine, where she was editor in chief from the mid-1960s until 1971. As editor of the two leading... Read more |
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Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Feininger , 1871-1956, American painter and illustrator, b. New York City. Feininger studied painting in Berlin, Hamburg, and Paris. He was an illustrator and caricaturist for several periodicals in Paris and in Germany and had a weekly comic page (1906-7) in the Chicago Tribune before he... Read more |
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Villahermosa
Villahermosa , city (1990 pop. 261,321), capital of Tabasco state, SE Mexico, on the Grijalva River. The city, which has good communications facilities, is the commercial and distribution center for the surrounding region. Oil is the economic mainstay. Villahermosa was founded in the 16th cent. The... Read more |
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. on the National Mall, memorial to the victims of the Holocaust . Designed by architect James Ingo Freed, it opened in 1993. Using a stark, harsh architectural vocabulary of industrial forms and unadorned materials, the building itself... Read more |
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Nantucket
Nantucket , island, c.14 mi (23 km) long, from 3 to 6 mi (4.8-9.6 km) wide, SE Mass., lying c.25 mi (40 km) S of Cape Cod, from which it is separated by Nantucket Sound. Muskeget Channel is located between Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard to the west. Exhibiting evidence of glaciation (terminal... Read more |
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Penn State U. museum opens Aleutian Island exhibit
...Collegian) (U-WIRE...table at Penn State University's Matson Museum of Anthropology...the life of Aleutian Island people seem real in the exhibit "Life in...Aleutian ... |