"They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris."
Frida Kahlo
letter to Robert Muray February 16, 1939
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Illustrated letter from John Sloan in Santa Fe, to Walter Pach, June 9, 1920
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Everett Shinn, Robert Henri, and John Sloan relaxing in Henri's studio in Philadelphia, 1896
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The Duchamp Brothers 1914
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Monet's first studio and grounds in Giverny, ca. 1905-1906
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John Singer Sargent and Madame X
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Florence Knoll nterior design sketch
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Oscar Bluemner The Dance of Factory Life
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"I longed to be someone else, to be liked only for oneself, to live quietly and happily, without the burden that goes with riches."
vita brevis —Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
et ars longa Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney by Robert Henri at artnet
et ars longa speakART/Youth2Youth at the Whitney Museum of American Art
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Archives of American Art
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