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...treasures Collector Dreier did not give her Société is a painting on glass by Abstractionist Duchamp which she has had built into the wall of her house. Several years ago, on its way to an exhibition in Brooklyn, the glass picture got shattered. To restore it, Artist Duchamp made a special trip to the U.S., pieced it together like a picture puzzle, found that the cracks improved the com position...
With a composition as clean as an Airacobra's wing, Vienna-born Posterman Joseph Binder won $500 for the best design for Army Air Corps recruiting. A deft color job that made the most of his abstractionist science won Painter John Atherton of Ridgefield, Conn, first money for the best poster boosting Treasury defense bonds. The Treasury announced that it would purchase Atherton's winner and 16 others. The Army promised to take a look at the best work in the Army Air Corps division...
...France, awaiting papers and passage to the U.S., were 74-year-old Abstractionist Wossily Kandinsky, Surrealists Hans Arp, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall. En route was French Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz...
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...
...eyed Curt Valentin, had chosen 26 assorted bronzes, terra cottas, plaster, wood and granite pieces by 16 of the ablest U. S. sculptors. All of them were U. S. citizens, but less than half of them were U. S.-born & bred. Deftest sculptures exhibited were by Ukrainian-born Abstractionist Alexander Archipenko, German-born Heinz Warneke, Spanish-born José de Creeft, who teaches at Manhattan's New School for Social Research...