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Map of Brooklyn

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Description: From Lascaux to Brooklyn
I was born in Brooklyn. It could have been Budapest, Buffalo, or Beijing, each with its own special ambience, each having its own aesthetic link to the cave paintings of Lascaux, irrespective of time, place, or distance. At the Brooklyn Museum I got my first glimpse of the watercolors of John Singer Sargent, the etchings of Anders Zorn, the apples of Cézanne, and the icons and hieroglyphs of the great Egyptian collection, as well as the sculptures of Karl Milles that enliven most of the top …
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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00052.018

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