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Heroic subjects are not fashionable among U.S. artists. But exuberant Jon Corbino, who this week opened an exhibition of turbulent canvases on Manhattan's 57th Street, loves to paint conflicts and catastrophes, swarming canvases in which full-blown nudes and horses writhe and rear in the throes of floods, shipwrecks, stampedes. And gallery-goers like his smoldering color and sweeping draftsmanship, which make the most innocent New England landscape seethe with dramatic struggle...
Once a week he shaves and drives himself to Manhattan where he dutifully makes the rounds of 57th Street's art galleries. A great admirer of highbrow art, he speaks with reverence of Picasso, Pascin and the abstractionists, curiously dislikes surrealism. Wherever he goes he makes sketches, works them up later into cartoon ideas...
...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...
...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...