Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressional representation, the number of pictures a State could send to the show was made proportional to its population, hence arid New Mexico, which has as thriving an art community as exists in the U. S., was limited to five canvases, one sculpture, while Florida, as arid artistically as it is fruitful agriculturally was allowed eight paintings, one sculpture. Beyond that the most startling fact to Manhattanites was that neither John Steuart Curry of Kansas, Thomas Benton of Missouri or Grant Wood of Iowa wa represented...
Because most artists of ability live close to the Manhattan art marts and consider New York their State no matter whence they came, New York's contribution was the largest, easily the best. Reginald Marsh had one of his riotous confusions at Coney Island, this time entitled George T. Tilyou's Steeplechase Park. Sculptor Mahonri Young offered a bronze boxer. There were able nudes by Isabel Bishop and Alexander Brook and a study of a black parasol by Morris Kantor that was possibly the best still life in the show...
...York had the highest general excellence, Illinois' 18 exhibits showed the greatest heterogeneity. For the first time Easterners had a chance to see Carl Hallsthammar's fine Venus in Red Cherry, winner of the Logan prize at the Chicago Art Institute, and widely hailed by liberal critics as the finest work ever to win that prize. There were able landscapes by Dale Nichols and Frederick Tellander, but there was also Contemplation by Julius Moessel, a study of a chimpanzee squatting in a rhododendron bush and gazing sentimentally at a butterfly, and there was Sophie by Macena Barton, most...
...private residences in mid-Manhattan with a scrap of lawn. Mr. Rockefeller had not seen it for years, however, and last week came news that it and his son's place next door would soon be torn down. The sites had been given to the Museum of Modern Art for a fine new building to be completed...
Since its founding eight years ago, the Museum of Modern Art has had three homes. First was seven rooms in the Heckscher Building. Next was a converted private house on West 53rd Street, then two weeks ago it moved to temporary quarters in Rockefeller Center. The new building will occupy the site of the West 53rd Street place and use part of the adjacent Rockefeller sites in the rear for a garden. Designed by Architects Philip L. Goodwin & Edward D. Stone, the new museum will be a block of concrete, white marble, dark stone, glass brick and plate glass...