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Capter II Our blithe Beginning Days
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CHAPTER II
OUR BLITHE BEGINNING DAYS
I
Alive and kicking; better than we
now realize, the old phrase fits our
young American art of the early nine-
teenth century. In Boston, Mr. Bul-
finch is packing his triangles and T-
squares for a journey to Washington,
where he is to remain twelve years as
Latrobe’s successor as architect of the
Capitol. In New York, morning-star
young art-students are passionately
performing their historic ritual of
fighting the janitor and founding new
movements; even Colonel Trumbull
is defied; hence, in 1825, our National
Academy of Design. In Philadelphia,
harmony presides over the Pennsyl-
CHAPTER II
OUR BLITHE BEGINNING DAYS
I
Alive and kicking; better than we
now realize, the old phrase fits our
young American art of the early nine-
teenth century. In Boston, Mr. Bul-
finch is packing his triangles and T-
squares for a journey to Washington,
where he is to remain twelve years as
Latrobe’s successor as architect of the
Capitol. In New York, morning-star
young art-students are passionately
performing their historic ritual of
fighting the janitor and founding new
movements; even Colonel Trumbull
is defied; hence, in 1825, our National
Academy of Design. In Philadelphia,
harmony presides over the Pennsyl-