Word: barreness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...definition, "modern" harks all the way back to Edouard Manet), all borrowed from private collectors. The exhibition was eye-opening evidence of the success U.S. collectors have had in capturing some of the gems of 19th and 20th century European painting. From his private contributors, Curator Alfred H. Barr Jr. was able to put together a selection that few public collections in the U.S. or Europe could approach...
...Curator Barr was particularly proud of his two new Matisses (donated by John Hay Whitney and Samuel Marx). One, called Goldfish and Sculpture, he had been hoping to get for years. The other was The Moroccans (see color page), a 9-ft.-wide canvas that Matisse painted in 1916 and kept for himself through his life. Barr, a careful and scholarly sort, unhesitatingly describes it as "the greatest Matisse this side of Moscow...
Immediately on his election, Barr went quickly to work. He planned to give raises in specific places and departments where they were long overdue, hoped to stir up employee initiative by loosening the tight controls imposed by Avery, e.g., allow buyers to buy-virtually impossible under Avery. He hoped to open up a new store or two, lay plans for an employee pension plan, put an end to the traditional Avery policy of secrecy with the press. To replenish Ward's ravaged top executive echelon, down to one vice president, he began setting up a new management team...
...With Barr presiding, the board quickly revised the bylaws, pared the membership of the all-powerful executive committee from five to three. To it, the board named Barr, Clarke, and Director...
Shaver, another member of the old management. This gave Barr and Clarke complete control of the company in most critical matters. This was the first blow at Wolf son. The second : the board steam roller flattened Wolfson's plea for a committee to search out a new president, smoothly named Chairman Barr to that post as well. When the meeting ended, Wolfson, shut out completely, was near inarticulate and trembling with rage. If he continues his batt'e for control of Ward's, he will have to fight a tough...