Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...standing rules of Manhattan's art mart (57th Street) were broken last week...
Other proposed features: 1) an auditorium and studio building to house Manhattan's musicians, 2) an art center to take the place of the scores of art dealers' galleries now scattered along Manhattan's 57th Street and elsewhere, 3) a barrel-topped terminal for Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey, 4) a health and recreation building with courts, rinks and swimming pools, 5) a large hotel especially designed for conventions of out-of-town industrialists, 6) a fashion center for wholesaling, distribution and display of the garment industry, 7) many-storied underground garages, wide sidewalks, rooftop restaurants...
Manhattan's 57th St. last week turned up an almost unheard-of Spanish painter, Arturo Souto, a solemn, round-bellied Galician. Unlike most celebrated modern Spanish artists (Picasso, Miro, Dali, Gris, et al.) Painter Souto has done most of his painting away from Paris. His heavily stippled, somber-colored paintings of street scenes and peasant figures look conservative alongside the geometric and psychopathic fantasies of his more famed countrymen. But his 'work is agreeably realistic and dourly, muddily individual...
...much. Two months before it was over he left for Paris and Brussels, drifted later to the U.S. Exiled and running low on funds in Manhattan, Souto was lucky enough to get friends to stake him to last week's exhibition expenses, persuaded Knoedler's swank 57th Street Gallery to hang his pictures on speculation. By week's end neither his friends nor Knoedler's were disappointed. In the first five days of the exhibition Arturo Souto, had sold twelve paintings, (at $75 to $500), one of them to Frank Jewett Mather Jr., famed art critic...
Last week, on Manhattan's 57th Street, four of the leading abstractionists broke out with simultaneous exhibitions. Argentine-born Frenchman Fernand Leger started out as a Cubist with Braque and Picasso in 1910. Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky and U. S.-born, German-bred Lyonel Feininger were long masterminds of Germany's Bauhaus group. Spanish-born Joan Miro is a surrealist who is more abstract than Surrealist Salvador Dali. Least abstract of the four abstractionists' pictures were those of stocky Fernand Leger, who now lives in the U. S. Leger's intricate designs, drawn with thick, coally...