"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.

Rattenberg, Tyrol Hermann Stieffel

Beautiful Prairie Bluffs above the Ponca... George Catlin

Mún-ne-o-ye, a Woman George Catlin

Unfinished Carving of Dahlov Zorach Reuben Nakian

Singleton van Buren as a Child John Carlin

Rabbit Paul Wayland Bartlett