The New York Times Magazine May 9, 1976 American Art Childhood Emma Van Name


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The magazine is in good condition. It is a complete copy but shows moderate signs of age and wear, corner creases, or light surface wear. The photos show the exact item you will receive. Please review all pictures for full condition details. Combined shipping is available. Each issue ships in a protective plastic sleeve.


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This gently mysterious portrait of a child named Emma Van Name, by an anonymous artist (circa 1795), is one of the delights of a major exhibit of American art of the pre- and post-Revolutionary years, now at the Yale University Art Gallery and to be shown London this summer. (Collection of the Whitney Museum of Art; gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch.) Page 34.

4
Letters
On equal-rights proponents and opponents.

6
Sunday Observer
Badlands
By Russell Baker

13
Communism, Italian style
How long would it be before Moscow put the pressure on?
Or are these Communists who can be trusted?
By Alvin Shuster

14
Torment over the Viet non-orphans
An adoptive American family says: “Thank God she turned out O.K. Now we just hope we can keep her.”
A natural mother from Vietnam says: “They say mother mean nothing. I want my son!”
By Tracy Johnston

16
The country girl
Dolly Parton came out of a two-room shack in the mountains to become the fastest-rising star on the country-music scene.
By Chris Chase

18
Ethnic renewal
How ordinary people in East Baltimore have created a model answer to inner-city blight.
By Bob Kuttner

34
Design: The elegant revolution
A fresh look at American art of the 18th century reveals a lot about the national character.

37
Borman to the rescue
An airline is like a family. To prosper, it needs good morale and the authority of a strong daddy. Troubled Eastern is looking to former astronaut Frank Borman to provide both.

74
Fashion: Paris report
The fall game: Peasants and Indians

80
Food
May is morel time

84
Puzzles
Last week’s answers, Page 58

103
Endpaper
A lost round found
By Peter Schickele

Picture credits, Page 87

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