Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even more frustrating than the lamp corner in many department stores is the room where second-rate reproductions of third-rate paintings are customarily sold under the name of Art. In the last few years, however, stores have taken steps to make their art departments at least as interesting as their advertising, and last week in Manhattan the John Wanamaker store cut loose with nothing less than the second annual exhibition of the American Artists' Congress. Wanamaker patrons in search of home furnishings were thus led to see some 235 examples of the livest professional work being done...
...lineman relaxed on his haunches, impressed critics as one of the few successful handlings to date of that oddly difficult subject. Artist Marc Perper's Poverty was an unusually solid work of imagination. On the doctrinal side, Stuart Davis contributed a hopeful catalogue note on Democracy and Art...
...studied under Frank Duveneck (TIME, April 25), Mr. Bairnsfather never goes far afield for his subjects. Last summer he spent about 30 hours, smoked about 60 pipes, doing a brown and silver study of Dr. George Washington Carver, famed old Negro chemist at Tuskegee Institute. When the Southern States Art League, proud nurse of regional consciousness among artists from New Orleans to Charleston, held its 18th annual exhibition last month in Montgomery, Artist Bairnsfather sent in his portrait. What surprised him, as a Southerner, was that it got the Blanche S. Benjamin prize of $250 for "the loveliest painting...
...tall and rations short, a worn old woman last year passed her 70th birthday in public oblivion. Ten years before, as one of the most powerful living woman artists, she had been honored with a big retrospective exhibition. Five years before, she had been director of the Graphic Arts department of the Berlin Academy. But the canons of Nazi art were such that, though she continued to work, Kathe Kollwitz had no more exhibitions in Germany after...
There are two annual international exhibitions of painting in the U. S. One is at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. It is held every autumn and is devoted to paintings on canvas. The other is at the Art Institute in Chicago. It is held every Spring and is devoted to paintings on paper. Visitors to the Institute's 17th International Water Color Exhibition last week found it notable for several reasons, one of which was that about half the 541 paintings shown were pure-blooded water colors. The rest of the paper paintings were in media as diverse...