Word: barres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carpenters, painters, plasterers were making an unholy din in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week. With deeply furrowed brow, Director Alfred H. Barr Jr. had retired to his office and was scowling at an unproductive typewriter. Scattered about the floors were strange objects of wood, rusted iron, marble, plate glass, polished brass. All of them were heavy and a great many of them were extremely large. With 150 paintings, they made up the largest exhibition of abstract art New York has yet seen...
Meanwhile at the Museum Director Barr gulped coffee and puffed cigarets, as he tried to explain why two wooden balls dangling on wires from a bit of bent pipe should be considered art. Three days before the exhibition opened printers were waiting anxiously for the catalog of which Director Barr had composed only six pages. Excerpt...
...ranch in Kansas. Until recently, he also taught English history and mathematics at St. Mary's College in Kansas. Umpire Charles Moran was football coach at Centre College, developed famed "Bo" McMillin. Umpire "Beans" Reardon, famed for his raucous voice, is a Hollywood bit-part actor. Umpire George Barr is professor of umpiring at the Doan School of Baseball at Hot Springs, Ark. Umpire Bill Klem, dean of his profession at 62 and long past the length of service at which National League umpires are eligible for a $2,000 yearly pension, does nothing in the winter. He thinks...
...Museum of Modern Art included Miss Bliss, Mrs. W. Murray Crane, A. Conger Goodyear, Editor Frank Crowninshield, Paul J. Sachs of Harvard's Fogg Museum. Gallery space was rented in the Heckscher Building, and on the advice of Professor Sachs, lean, 27-year-old Alfred H. Barr Jr. was hired as Director...
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