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Article: Terra show captures old elegance of Boston
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- March 13, 1987
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A fascinating portrait of artistic consciousness from a bygone
age of privilege and refinement is on view in an exhibition of more
than 100 works, "The Bostonians: Painters of an Elegant Age,
1870-1930," at the Terra Museum of American Art through May 10.
The show features the works of 40 artists, including William
Paxton, John Singer Sargent, William Morris Hunt, Maurice
Prendergast, Edmund Tarbell, Lillian Hale, Frank Benson and Frederick
Childe Hassam.
Many of the works share a depiction of an educated, monied
Boston society perpetuating Brahmin-class values in a world that was
going to avante-garde New York City in a handbasket. Men often are
shown as serious and restrained; women ...