The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (57 page)
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Authors: David Mccullough
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The Statue of Liberty rises over Paris in a painting by Victor Dargaud.
The grounds of the 1889 Exposition Universelle with the newly completed Eiffel Tower, the world’s tallest structure.
Thomas Alva Edison
by Abraham Archibald Anderson. So great was popular interest in Edison that he spent much of his time in Paris hiding out with his American friend Anderson, who took the opportunity to paint Edison’s portrait.
Students at the Académie Julian in a painting by Jefferson David Chalfant (detail).
Robert Henri.
Henry O. Tanner by Hermann Dudley Murphy.
Henri’s plan of the apartment he shared with four other American art students and their sleeping arrangement on “little iron beds.”
Cover of a 1900 Exposition Universelle guide book.
Henry Adams.
The continuing thrill of the fair—Paris seen from the Eiffel Tower.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in his Paris studio, with a variation of his
Amor Caritas
.
Gus and Gussie aboard ship on a trip to Spain, 1905.
