"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."--Edith Wharton, "Vesalius in Zante," 1902. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

John Caldwell Calhoun Hiram Powers

An Interlude William Sergeant Kendall

Chateau de l'Houblouniere Cass Gilbert

Landscape with Sheep Robert Seldon Duncanson

Ruins of Asrum Asia Minor: Explored with... Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Mrs. John Watson (Matilda) Sarah Goodridge