Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Museum of Modern Art New York City
TIME, May 23, however, your reviewer slipped up on one small but important detail in his article on the large Exhibition of American Art 1609-1938 which the Museum of Modern Art assembled at the request of the French Government for a summer showing in the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris. After outlining and analyzing with swift clarity the scope of the exhibition, your reviewer states in the caption under your color reproduction of Henry Varnum Poor's Boy with Bow that the artist is not represented in the Paris show...
Last year, while grey-haired Carl Milles worked serenely in his three Cranbrook studios, pictures of his first clay models for the Wedding of the Mississippi and the Missouri were published in LIFE. Francis D. Healy, elderly chairman of St. Louis's Municipal Art Commission, saw them and snorted that the fountain would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony" (TIME, Aug. 9). For Sculptor Milles' wave-naked Tritons, Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, suggested trousers. Finally the Star-Times took a poll of public opinion, found plenty of people who agreed with the two indignant commissioners...
...female Missouri, mounted on swooping fishes, will approach each other in the centre of Aloe Plaza. Behind each lollops a flowing train of antic naiads and tough river gods. To Detroit last week to see the final, full-size models of these Rivers, journeyed St. Louis' seven-man Art Commission...
...years ago, when the Public Works Administration began to build its biggest, most expensive ($13.500,000), most admirably planned housing project, in the Williamsburg District of Brooklyn (TIME, April 18), Consulting Architect William Lescaze and Burgoyne Diller, head of the Federal Art Project's New York City mural division, decided to try abstract murals in the project's ten recreation rooms, each entrusted to a single artist. By last week, murals were installed in two rooms. Last week, blue-eyed Mr. Diller, harassed but proud, was finally sure enough of WPA's abstract murals to exhibit some...