Grey-goateed President Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee) of the National Academy of Design likes to have its members remembered. Exhibited to that end last week at Manhattan's American Fine Arts Building was a fascinating array of work by vigorous Academicians from Inness to Homer to Bellows, plus notes, letters and early telegraphic contraptions by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, the gifted portraitist and first president of the Academy (1826-45), who turned inventor to make a living.
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