DOI Heft:
The international Studio (July, 1908)
DOI Artikel:Cary, Elisabeth Luther: Recent accessions of modern art in the Wilstach Collection
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28255#0375
The Scrip
Wilstach Gallery, by Courtesy oj the Commissioners
Photograph by Rittenhouse
ON THE BALCONY
BY MARY CASSATT
for we cannot always be having our emotions deeply
stirred. That wearies us, body and soul, and man,
an animal that longs for rest like other animals, de-
fends himself against that weariness by hardening
his heart and refusing to be moved every hour of the
day by tragic emotions—nay, even by beauty that
claims his attention overmuch. Such callousness is
bad, both for the arts and our own selves, and, there-
fore, it is not so good to have the best art forever
under our eyes, though it is abundantly good that
we should be able to get at it from time to time,”
which is not, of course, an argument against procur-
ing the best art for museums, but rather an argu-
ment in favor of it, but which puts the case by
easy inference for the quiet excellence of minor
examples.
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Wilstach Gallery, by Courtesy oj the Commissioners
Photograph by Rittenhouse
ON THE BALCONY
BY MARY CASSATT
for we cannot always be having our emotions deeply
stirred. That wearies us, body and soul, and man,
an animal that longs for rest like other animals, de-
fends himself against that weariness by hardening
his heart and refusing to be moved every hour of the
day by tragic emotions—nay, even by beauty that
claims his attention overmuch. Such callousness is
bad, both for the arts and our own selves, and, there-
fore, it is not so good to have the best art forever
under our eyes, though it is abundantly good that
we should be able to get at it from time to time,”
which is not, of course, an argument against procur-
ing the best art for museums, but rather an argu-
ment in favor of it, but which puts the case by
easy inference for the quiet excellence of minor
examples.
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