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His Friend Hart-mann: Hurriedly he rushed to his cabin for his Graflex camera, hoping that the figures would not move in the meantime. He returned to find all as he had left it and quickly released the shutter. The picture was the result of instant recognition of subject and form—"spontaneity of judgment" and "composition by the eye," as his friend Hart-mann put it. No longer, as in his Winter on Fifth Avenue, did he find an environment and patiently wait until "everything was in balance." Now he instantly, without hesitation or even conscious thought, put a frame around the subject. Furthermore, he printed the full negative, without cropping.
Hart's two elder brothers, James McDougal Hart (1828-1901) and William Hart (1823-1894), were also well-known artists.
HART, John (c. 1711-1779), American patriot, who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Born in Stonington, Conn., he moved to Hunterdon county, N. J., as a youth, became a prosperous farmer, and acquired grist mill and fulling mills. He served in the colonial legislature (1761-1771) and in New Jersey's provincial congresses (1774-1776). A delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776, Hart was, at 65, the oldest man to sign the Declaration. Later that year he was unanimously chosen speaker of the first Assembly of the state of New Jersey.
This was the beginning of a long and brilliant collaboration which lasted until Hart's death in 1943. Rodgers went to the Institute of Musical Art in 1921, studying with Frank Dam-rosch, Henry Krehbiel, and George Wedge. After two years at the institute, he and Hart began writing amateur shows for churches, synagogues, clubs, and schools, but they were unable to break into the professional field. Biscouraged, Rodgers was about to give up the theater and go into business when he and Hart were asked to do the songs for The Garrick Gaieties (1925), produced by the Junior Group of the Theater Guild. |
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