This year's enthusiasm for U. S. painting and its founders moved forward in New York last week with two memorial exhibitions. One, at the Metropolitan Museum of the portraits and landscapes of Samuel Finley Breese Morse, commemorated the 100th anniversary of the telegraph. One, at the Public Library of the amazing wood engravings of Timothy Cole, famed craftsman of the '90s, recalled the days-before-photo-engraving.* Critics left them unvisited until they had paid their respects to the first showing in years of the painting of the Mahatma Eilshemius.
All Manhattan art dealers know a little old gentleman with baggy trousers, a beard and...
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