- Title Pages
- For Gail
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
1 An Intellectual Sewer -
2 Homes of Virtue -
3 Harvard -
4 Oxford during the War -
5 The Chicago Experiment -
6 Lady of the Sonnets -
7 Death of the Prophet -
8 To the Center of Things -
9 Starting with a Bang -
10 Manhattan Love Stories -
11 Anti-Epithalamion -
12 To the Great Master -
13 Assessing the Modern -
14 A Millionaire in Red Vienna -
15 Teuton versus Francophile -
16 Barnes in Eruption -
17 Feuds Galore -
18 Annus Belli -
19 Freudless in Vienna -
20 Return of the Prodigal -
21 The Death of the Dial -
22 Thayer in Eclipse -
23 Postmortem - God, Stars, and Sea
- Bibliography
- Index
- [UNTITLED]
An Intellectual Sewer
An Intellectual Sewer
- Chapter:
- (p.1) 1 An Intellectual Sewer
- Source:
- The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer
- Author(s):
James Dempsey
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
Chapter 1 introduces us to Scofield Thayer in the following anecdote. In 1924, a nationally know portrait artist visited Worcester, Massachusetts, to paint the portrait of a college president. Interviewed by the local newspaper, he called Thayer's The Dial “an intellectual sewer,” not realizing that Worcester is Thayer's hometown. Thayer responded in a Dial article that describes the very different views of art that existed between the traditionalists and the avant-garde of the time. Soon after this response, Thayer drew up his will, leaving his art collection the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City rather than his hometown's Worcester Art Museum, where his large collection ended up on loan. At Thayer's death, the Worcester museum would be dealt a huge blow when the heart of its collection was moved to New York.
Keywords: The Dial, intellectual sewer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum
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- Title Pages
- For Gail
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
1 An Intellectual Sewer -
2 Homes of Virtue -
3 Harvard -
4 Oxford during the War -
5 The Chicago Experiment -
6 Lady of the Sonnets -
7 Death of the Prophet -
8 To the Center of Things -
9 Starting with a Bang -
10 Manhattan Love Stories -
11 Anti-Epithalamion -
12 To the Great Master -
13 Assessing the Modern -
14 A Millionaire in Red Vienna -
15 Teuton versus Francophile -
16 Barnes in Eruption -
17 Feuds Galore -
18 Annus Belli -
19 Freudless in Vienna -
20 Return of the Prodigal -
21 The Death of the Dial -
22 Thayer in Eclipse -
23 Postmortem - God, Stars, and Sea
- Bibliography
- Index
- [UNTITLED]
