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Endnotes1. February 10–June 15, 1980. Edited by John Wilmerding. Published forthe National Gallery of Art, 1980.2. Rudolf Steiner. The Mission of the Folk Souls. Eleven lectures given inChristiania (Oslo) from June 7–10, 1911. Translated by A.H. Parker,London: 1970, p. 38.3. Wilmerding, p. 17. An earlier American painter is described by T. Stebbins(p. 215) as “objective, realistic, linear, non-painterly.” Another definitionof luminism by A. Gelpi (p. 301).4. Kennedy Galleries, New York, 1971. Goodrich found the diversity ofartistic trends (he is including the 20th century) to be the key factor(p. 21):“There are many diverse qualities that can be calledcharacteristically American; for ours is a pluralistic art, theexpression of a diversified, democratic society, giving freerein to wide individualism in artistic creation.” This latterstatement underlines the increasing complexity and, onemay hope, maturity in the American scene.5. Steiner, Rudolf. The Mission of the Folk Souls. p. 59. The incarnation ofthe Archangel is presumably into the higher members, not the physicalbodies, of the people.6. Ibid., p. 61.7. Ibid., pp. 50–51.8. Ibid., p. 32.98