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Tough Tarbell Trivia
08-04-2023, 10:08 PM
Post: #646
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Nope, it's not Carnegie, either.

Clue: It would make sense to stay out of the field of politics.

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08-05-2023, 09:36 AM
Post: #647
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Next clue. His chief critic would be very well known to forum members. This critic once said he thought this person had a "screw loose."

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08-06-2023, 11:55 AM
Post: #648
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Next clue. In addition to Tarbell, Edwin Markham also defended this person.

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08-06-2023, 07:04 PM
Post: #649
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Next clue: The ramifications of this person's work are not only limited to America but are worldwide.

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08-06-2023, 08:10 PM
Post: #650
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
I have no idea - wild guess: Charles Lindbergh.
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08-06-2023, 09:46 PM
Post: #651
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Nope, it isn't Lindbergh.

Next clue. There are three different places throughout the world where this man's work is visible.

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Rob

Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
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08-07-2023, 06:57 AM
Post: #652
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Final clue. He was a sculptor.

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08-07-2023, 11:21 PM
Post: #653
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
I recall that 'screw loose' when I was researching (I.e. google) Tarbell and Pennsylvania.
Something to do with a lunatic idea .
I just have to back track ... might take a few years.

I know ... the First World War. Resolving it.

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08-08-2023, 01:48 PM
Post: #654
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Guess I will go ahead and call this. The answer is George Grey Barnard, whose statue of Lincoln was loudly criticized by, among others, Robert Todd Lincoln. It had worldwide ramifications, given that two of the statues are in the United States, and one is in Manchester, England. It was RTL who said that he believed Barnard had "a screw loose." Markham, in addition to Tarbell, wrote an article defending Barnard.

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08-08-2023, 02:20 PM
Post: #655
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Good question, Rob! Now it all makes sense.
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08-08-2023, 02:54 PM
Post: #656
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
I must confess, it's not my favoriite statue of Lincoln

https://www.encirclephotos.com/image/abr...nati-ohio/

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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08-08-2023, 03:03 PM
Post: #657
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
(08-08-2023 02:54 PM)Gene C Wrote:  I must confess, it's not my favoriite statue of Lincoln

https://www.encirclephotos.com/image/abr...nati-ohio/

I saw the statue. I do think that the sculptor "had a screw loose" (maybe, two or three screws loose). It looks like Lincoln dressed up for a Halloween night "trick or treating." And, Lincoln might have come back to the White House with an empty bag of treats.

What did Tarbell say in her defense of Barnard?

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08-08-2023, 06:02 PM
Post: #658
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Here is the link to her article. Scroll down to the general index, and you will see Barnard's name, and it should give you a link to Tarbell's article.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/0...AAJ?gbpv=1

Quote:I must confess, it's not my favorite statue of Lincoln

I have to say I don't hate it. In fact, I think it comes much closer to showing us the real Lincoln than many others. By the time it came out, Robert Todd Lincoln was the unmistakable protector of his father's legacy, and he would do anything to keep that legacy in the hagiographic. To me, it's interesting that Tarbell was willing to take such a public stand, given that RTL provided her with the earliest known photo of Lincoln for her McClure's article, and she generally didn't want to do anything to upset him. I have never heard what, if anything, he thought of her article.

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08-09-2023, 12:19 PM
Post: #659
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
(08-08-2023 06:02 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  Here is the link to her article. Scroll down to the general index, and you will see Barnard's name, and it should give you a link to Tarbell's article.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/0...AAJ?gbpv=1


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Rob

Ida Tarbell wrote on page 228:

"Sure I am of this: that those who do not see the great soul of Lincoln in Barnard's statue would never have seen it in the living man himself."

I disagree. Several photographs of Lincoln show his great soul. This statue does not.

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08-09-2023, 09:13 PM
Post: #660
RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. There is certainly nothing wrong with expressing the opinion that you don't like something. However, Tarbell is talking about seeing Lincoln in person, not through the photographer's lens. Note "the living man himself."

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