History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and New York art scene
The piece surveys Winifred Howe's history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, tracing its origins in 1869 and 1872, its early leaders and donors, and its growth through Cesnola and Morgan. It situates the museum beside New York institutions like the American Academy of the Fine Arts and Cooper Union, noting shifts toward industrial art education and expanding collections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Winifred E. Howe
Jacunae
Metropolitan Museum
New York
American Academy of the Fine Arts
New York Historical Society
Bryan
Holland
Florence
New York Gallery of the Fine Arts
National Academy of Design
P. B. Wight
Cooper Union
School of Design For Women
Wiliam Rimmer
Michaelangelo
Buonarrotti
Paris
John Jay
Old World
Gallery of Art
America
Europe
Union League Club
Club
George P. Putnam
John I. Kensett
William Cullen Bryant
Spain
Belgium
German National Museum For Modern Art
Deutsches Museum
Nuremberg
Bellows
de Forest
di Cesnola
J. Pierpont Morgan
John Taylor Johnston
William T. Blodgett
Johnston
Rowe
Schwanthaler
Munich
Dodworth
Museum
Cesnola
Douglas
Fourteenth Street
Gen. Cesnola
Central Park
William C. Prime
Morgan
National Gallery
London
Louvre
Portmanteau Word Craze Spreads From Wonderland to Real Language
The piece celebrates new portmanteau coinages such as bungalofer and wishy Washington, traces their English and American roots, and cites examples from Carrolls era to modern authors, noting how towns, people, and ideas become blended into clever compound terms across culture and geography.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
America
Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Wonderland
Won-derland
Lewis Carroll
Carroll
Alice
Humpty Dumpty
George du Maurier
Charles Darwin
du Maurier
Pen Mar
Hagerstown
Pennsylvania
del Mar
Marydell
Moark
Jilliana
Texarkana
Kenova
Kentucky
Ohio
Virginia
Penn Yan
Reading Railroad
Philmont
Thirty-fifth Ward
Philadelphia
Montgomery County
California
Keedysville
Kee Mar College
Arthur Pendennis
New York
Saltaire
Thomas Salt
River Aire
Pullman
Chicago
George
Utah
Cleopold
Leopold
Clto de Meroda
Samuel Butler
John Walker
Macbeth
Southern University
Cosmarch
Archon
Commonwealth of the Future
Jesus
Paris
Comtesse de Castiglione
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Ray Ayats
Academy of Design
Twenty-fifth Street
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Jared B. Flagg
Edward Robinson
John S. Sargent
Lewis Carre
Tully
Mina
Meoseveit
Lewis Carrell
Zoological Gardens of Wonderland
Alick P. F. Ritchie
Strand
Animal Doubles
Fioerite
National Museum
Jusif
Perugia
Ternia
Garuc
Giudice
Persia
Russia
Julian
Julian Charles Young
Samuel Wilberforce
Wilberforce
Squarson
Bloomfield
Charles Kingsley
Daniel
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Grover Cleveland
Laurence Hutton
Dr. Holmes
Thomas B. Reed
Sively
Mr. Speaker
Hutton
Cardinal O'Connell
New York Life
William H. O’connell
O’connell
Boston
Shirley Brooks
William de Morgan
Joe Vance
Shamateur
London Daily News
Oxford
Cambridge
Oliver Herford
Luther Burbank
The
Boston Transcript
Lippincott’s Magazine
Mademoiselle
Comtesse