Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pride of O. K. Yui was the city's $8,000,000 Civic Centre, a group of white marble buildings as imposing as anything in the International Settlement. Last week they were shelled to pieces by the guns of art-loving Admiral Yonai. Nearly half of Mayor Yui's great city was in flames and many thousands of his citizens were dead, but O. K. Yui has a chance of becoming a far greater hero than Mayor Wu ever...
There was some uncertainty as to whether the Charter Jubilee Art Show which got under way in Chicago last week was the largest such exhibit ever housed in one room, but everyone agreed that it was the longest. It was held on the second-floor gallery of Chicago's Navy Pier, where that city's proletariat is accustomed to flock on Sundays for recreation. Distance from the gallery's west entrance to the far end is 1,300 ft., and since the paintings hung on both walls a half-mile march was necessary to see them...
...Charter Jubilee Art Show (Chicago got its city charter in 1837) was open to any Chicago artist regardless of credo and achievement. Each was invited to send two works. Some 500 painters hung 850 canvases, with a sprinkling of photographs, pastels, sculpture. All artists were requested to price their showings and almost all did so. Prices ranged from $1.50 for Gazelle (sculpture) to $10,000 for Typical Historical American Indian (sculpture). On opening day, the show, which will run until Sept. 7, attracted 2,000 visitors at 10? a head. At week's end attendance stood...
What critics chiefly noted, aside from, an extremely wide range of merit, was a truce in the bitter factionalism which has characterized Chicago art since modernism first burst upon it in 1913. No one was heard of who refused to contribute because an enemy was represented, and painters with grim sociological messages did not stand off in a corner and poke fun at the "Sanity in Art" school, which was in evidence with scads of wholesome snowscapes, landscapes, seascapes. Of abstract paintings there were only two. Geographical range was all the way from The Ninth Hole, Park Ridge Golf Club...
Prime mover of Chicago's Charter Jubilee Art Show is flag-waving Chauncey McCormick, longtime vice president of Chicago's Art Institute, art impresario of the Century of Progress Exposition, grandnephew of the primordial Cyrus Hall McCormick. Chauncey McCormick who made his maiden political speech (''Save America") in the summer of 1935, is much more tolerant of radicalism in art than of radicalism in politics. When Mrs. Herbert Hoover was caught in a torrential rainstorm after inspecting the Century of Progress art show, gallant Mr. McCormick shooed a traffic officer from his corner to find...