Of all the great masters of French 19th-Century painting, only one had U. S. blood in his veins, or ever visited and painted in the U. S. Last week the Pennsylvania Museum of Art gave that painter, Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas, the most comprehensive show of his works ever held in this country. Over 100 paintings, drawings and prints went on view; there were even a small bronze figure and four photographs taken by Degas. To make the show a success, the Louvre, greatest art museum in the world, magnanimously postponed its own projected...
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