![]() "A Loan Exhibition of Gustave Courbet," December 2, 1948–January 8, 1949, no. "French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec," February 6–March 26, 1941, no. "Landscape Paintings," May 14–September 30, 1934, no. ![]() "The Taste of Today in Masterpieces of Painting before 1900," July 10–October 2, 1932, no catalogue (lent by Harry Payne Bingham). ![]() "Loan Exhibition of the Works of Gustave Courbet," April 7–May 18, 1919, no. 26 (as "Les Demoiselles du Village, lent by Durand-Ruel & Son, New York). "Universal Exposition," April 30–December 1, 1904, no. "First Exhibition for 1879," January 15–February 8, 1879, no. ![]() "Première exposition des sociétaires fondateurs de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts," June 15–?, 1862, no catalogue? (possibly this picture). 2802 (as "Les demoiselles de village," lent by M. 292 (as "Les demoiselles de village," lent by M. ![]()
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Then I found, when I did read it, it was really this sort of bold and brash and funny and musical book that totally astounded me. ![]() "All my life, I had been hearing about spoken of in these sort of stern and forbidding ways," Harbach says of his time in college. "Reading Moby-Dick was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me," Harbach tells NPR's Rachel Martin. Henry's fall raises big questions about the things we chase in life - a baseball career, a young love, or a great white whale - and what happens when we fall short. Henry is destined for the big leagues, until a debilitating mental slump lands him on the bench. ![]() Harbach's protagonist, Henry Skrimshander, is a prodigal shortstop at a small, midwestern liberal arts college called Westish University. Or in the same way Friday Night Lights is about football. ![]() How?Ĭhad Harbach's debut novel, The Art Of Fielding, is about baseball in the same way Moby-Dick is about whaling. 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