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...nudes out of 37 pictures is no overload for Artist Leon Kroll, 50, who opened two important exhibitions of his work, one at the Carnegie Institute, the other at the Milch Galleries in Manhattan. A persistent prizewinner since 1912, a National Academician, an able landscape painter, few artists since Titian have had a more wholehearted delight in the female figure...
...Washington's oldest art museum, the Corcoran Gallery, went Washington society last week to see its 14th biennial exhibition of U. S. paintings. It was a big show, 428 canvases on the line. Judges included such artists as Academician Jonas Lie, Henry Lee McFee, Richard E. Miller. Seasoned art critics' only criticism, invalid so far as Washington was concerned, was that all the most effective pictures had been seen time & again in Manhattan exhibitions...
...first thoroughgoing scandal in the Academy's 110 years occurred three months ago when an Academician was expelled in disgrace (TIME, Dec. 17). Stephen Bransgrove was an Australian scene painter who had won the Ellin P. Speyer prize for animal portraiture in 1933 with a canvas which he had copied stroke for stroke from a colored reproduction in a British magazine. The animal prize was awarded this year to a heavy plaster statue of a pelican swallowing a fish, by the eminently reputable Bruce Moore...
...Academician Shinn, busy with a play he is trying to write and with a one-man show of his paintings in another Manhattan gallery (TIME, March 11), did not bother to send a picture to this year's Academy. Nor did his election impress...
...spring exhibition of the Academy, an Australian artist named Stephen Bransgrove submitted a study of bulbous furry-footed horses entitled Clydesdales. Academicians liked it so well that they awarded it the $300 Ellen Speyer prize for animal portraiture, and knowing practically nothing about the artist, called him before the committee and elected him to membership. Respectable Portraitist Henry Rittenberg was proud to do Stephen Bransgrove, A. N. A. This spring Academician Bransgrove submitted another canvas of a man, a girl, five setters and a shotgun. Another more acute Academician discovered that, line for line, stroke for stroke...