McCullough makes 19th century Paris come alive
“At last I have come into a dreamland.” So wrote Harriet Beecher Stowe shortly after her arrival in Paris in June of 1853.
Stowe had gone to Paris for the same reasons Americans still visit the City of Light: a desire for adventure, a taste for art, an escape from the rigors or familiarity of life in the States — in Stowe‘s case, from her sudden unanticipated fame after the publication of Uncle Tom‘s Cabin.
Americans in Paris usually call to mind the cafes frequented by Hemingway and Fitzgerald, the seedy hotels of Henry Miller, the soldier-writers like James Jones and William Styron who headed for Paris following the Second World War. Today we think of student hostels, university “study abroad” programs, and a city which millions of Americans have visited in the last 50 years, all of them bringing their own hopes and desires for what they might find there.
Rarely, however, do we think of Paris as an American destination in the 19th century.We are aware of the impression left by Benjamin Franklin on the French, the role the city played in the life of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. To date, few of us have even thought that there were Americans living in Paris, between the time of the Founding Fathers and the time of the "lost generation" of the First World War.
In The Great Journey: The Americans in Paris (ISBN 978-1-4165-71176-6, $ 37.50), bestselling historian and biographer David McCullough correct this perception by giving us a fascinating account of the lives of Americans in Paris between 1830 and 1900. Elizabeth Blackwell, America’s first female doctor, James Fenimore Cooper, Samuel Morse, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James: these and many other Americans visited Paris and felt, to varying degrees, its influence in their lives.
In The Greater Journey, McCullough examines both this influence and the way in which Americans interacted with one another in so strange and different a place. In his account of Morse and Cooper, for example, we are given not only insights into the world of art at this time — for years Morse worked slavishly to become a painter before helping bring the telegraph to the world — but McCullough also shows us the strong friendship between these two men. Cooper came to Paris a famous writer, while Morse was a struggling painter, yet for their time in the city they became the best of friends.Cooper was intrigued by his friend's painting "Gallery of the Louvre," a lot of work with a gallery filled with paintings and Cooper himself, and would go daily to Morse's work to provide encouragement. With this account of these two men McCullough gives us their biographies in miniature, allowing us to see more fully both as Americans and as travelers.
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Rarely, however, do we think of Paris as an American destination in the 19th century. We are aware of the impression left by Benjamin Franklin on the French, of the role the city played in the lives of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.
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A new art exhibit, “Works on Paper: Japanese Tradition and Influence,” opens today from 4-6:30 pm at Aljoya Thornton Place in the Northgate area of North Seattle at 450 NE 100th Street. Aljoya Thornton Place’s Art Curator, June Sekiguchi and Beth Cullom of the Cullom Gallery (located in Pioneer Square) joined forces to design the exhibit featuring Japanese wood block paintings by artists from Seattle and around the world. The exhibit features works by Seattle artists Taiko Suzuki, Richard Heisler, and pieces from international artists influenced by Japanese woodblock painting styles.
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