In nearly every Carnegie International Exhibition since 1910 has appeared a painting from the determined brush of Mrs. Johanna K. Woodwell Hailman, one of Pittsburgh's own artists. In her huge old mansion on Penn Avenue, rich, widowed Mrs. Hailman almost single-handed keeps up a neighborhood where the Carnegies, Fricks, Heinzes and Mellons built their first palaces, only to move later to more fashionable fields. Socialite but steadfastly Edwardian, Mrs. Hailman dominates the city park system, has a tart tongue for politicians and a tender spot for fellow artists. Several months ago she commissioned...
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