Joseph Pennell, etcher extraordinary, confidant and biographer of Whistler, American by birth, cosmopolite by choice, arch-enemy of democracy and materialism, damned the "standardized product" of the London Royal College of Arts, in a letter to The New York Times. The reason why we have no national art school in America is "because the Government of this country takes no interest in art. We have no minister, no department of art. ... In fact, we have no art of our own to speak of, and don't really know how properly to steal that of other...
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