"For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowlege is the image of existence and things mean and splendid exist alike."--Francis Bacon, 1620. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
Artist:
Abram Games, English, born London, England 1914-died London, England 1996 Search this
"Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do ingloriously...to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?" --John Milton, Areopagitica, 1644. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Helen Williams Drutt English in honor of the birth of Allen Hubbard Hurdle, November 1, 1991, son of Robin Kranitzky and Allen Hurdle