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¶TIME'S authority is the National Gallery, whose experts agree that West's Indian, while not looking like other portraits of him, is indeed Joseph Brant. However, it is logical, they say, that West idealized him in his portrait as a symbol of his race. For West's and Stuart's portraits, see cuts.—ED.
Sir:
Your excellent cover and article on the great painter is a shaft of brilliant light in the brownstone world of dying avant-garde abstractionism.
FRANCIS C. PETERS
President Chapter of the American Artists Professional League Washington, D.C.
Sir:
The ejaculations of Hopper are more lively than his paintings. One thought is clear: the continuum of romanticist murmuring and sweet trills of past American art will "glow" through the age of Hopper and those who follow, amply aided by TIME.
(PFC.) MILTON T. STUBBS U.S. Army Fort Benning, Ga.
Sir:
Your Dec. 24 issue took us to the world of outer worlds. Never before have we lingered over an issue of TIME for so long with such appreciation.
PAUL B. NOEL
San Francisco
Sir:
I think your article on Edward Hopper the most moving and understanding you have ever published. Many artists should read this. You have done a top job.
ANDREW WYETH Chadds Ford, Pa.
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