"We lead the world in genius for invention, efficiency and utility. There is no reason why we cannot eventually do so in the genius for art and literature." With such hearty optimism, a steel baron named Joseph Green Butler Jr. founded an art institute in Youngstown, Ohio 39 years ago. To set the strictly American tone of the place, he planted a befeathered bronze Indian in front of the $500,000 colonnaded building designed by the Manhattan firm of McKim, Mead & White. With Youngstown University near by, the two blocks surrounding the museum soon...
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