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John J. Pershing (1860-1948) One of America's most famous Army officers, Pershing was born in Missouri on September 13, 1860. He graduated from West Point in 1886 and served in the Spanish-American War, the Philippines Insurrection, the Mexican Expedition and was the overall American Commander in Europe during World War I. Following the war, he served as Army Chief of Staff. He died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington on July 15, 1948. His funeral service, one of only a handful ever held at the Memorial Amphitheater in Arlington National Cemetery, was attended by literally thousands of American citizens as well as by the leaders of government and the military. He was buried, as was his wish, under a simple white gravestone in Section 34 of Arlington National Cemetery, near the gravesites of his "Doughboys" from World War I. Background: Art at the Table: Lotos Club State Dinner Menus, 1898-1922 Formed in 1870, the Lotos Club of New York is one of the oldest literary clubs in the United States. Located on 46th Street from 1893 to 1910, the Club was then moved to West 57th Street, where it operated from 1910 until 1947. Art at the Table: Lotos Club State Dinner Menus, 1898-1922, which opens at the Museum on March 24, 2001, presents a selection of 20 menus from the Museum’s Manuscript and Ephemera Collection designed for special dinners held at the Lotos Club. The Lotos Club offered its members and their guests meals, art exhibitions, literary evenings, music recitals, and lectures as well as dinners honoring noted literary and political figures. Accompanying these dinners were custom menus created to honor the special guests. Designs for many of the large-format menus were the work of a club member, illustrator Thomas A. Sindelar (1867-1923). The menus on display in Art at the Tableare predominantly by Sindelar and were prepared for dinners honoring such luminaries as Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), Booth Tarkington, Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary, New York State Governors Charles E. Hughes and Alfred E. Smith, New York City Mayor John P. Mitchel, and opera singer Mary Garden. The exhibition also features related materials. Among them is a silver three-handled cup presented by the Lotos Club to conductor Anton Seidl in 1897 for arranging Richard Wagner’s Siegfried Idyllfor a string quartet, and conducting the piece at a club musicale. SIZE: 20.5" Height x 15" Width.
CONDITION: Very Good.
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: COL_083 |
| Condition:
some yellowing and foxing, normal wear overall good condition. |
Year:
1924
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