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a href= http://www.americanart.si.edu target= _blank The Smithsonian American Art /a Museum announced that Lindsay Harris will join its senior lea
The Cathedral of Art (1942–1944, unfinished). Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. When Florine Stettheimer died in 1944, at the age of 72, the New York artist, poet, and salonnière, was still putting the final touches on The Cathedrals of Art, the last in a series of four monumental paintings devoted to New York’s cultural, social, and economic temples. Identical in scale, each painting measures five feet tall by just over four feet wide. The series, which includes The Cathedrals of Fifth Avenue (1931) , and The Cathedrals of Wall Street (1939), was a winkingly aware homage to p...