American Art Union Bulletin and Astor Girard Letters
The American Art Union publishes a bulletin listing 190 artworks to be distributed by lot among members at the December annual meeting, noting the union’s thriving support for native artists. A letter to Horace Mann by Charles Astor Brimed discusses remarks about John Jacob Astor compared with Stephen Girard, praising the author as a Trinity College foundation scholar and critic of American opinions and society.
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