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By Daniel Mainzers
Published online March 2, 2019
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In Response to: Art Museum’s New Exhibition: A Three-Century Look at How Artists Shaped Our View of Nature

I was surprised to see a leftist political statement in regard to a fine piece of art from another era, especially such a bad piece of art produced in ignorance of American history and merely shredded plagiarism. What is the museum thinking?

Daniel Mainzers
Stow, Ohio

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