“In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans... From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people.”

— John Dos Passos

"Grosz Comes to America," Esquire, 1936

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novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, painter 1896–1970

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