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Best deed of the week was when the Federated ladies conducted their biennial Young Artists' Contest, awarded $1,000 prizes to the three most worthy applicants for whom the Schubert Memorial will arrange public engagements. Preliminary heats had been held in 36 regional districts. For the Philadelphia finals there were eight nervous survivors. The three big winners: Violinist Joseph Knitzer, 22, from Manhattan; Pianist Rosalyn Tureck, a pupil of Olga Samaroff; Contralto Margaret Harshaw, 23, a stenographer for Bell Telephone Co. in Philadelphia...
...Washington's oldest art museum, the Corcoran Gallery, went Washington society last week to see its 14th biennial exhibition of U. S. paintings. It was a big show, 428 canvases on the line. Judges included such artists as Academician Jonas Lie, Henry Lee McFee, Richard E. Miller. Seasoned art critics' only criticism, invalid so far as Washington was concerned, was that all the most effective pictures had been seen time & again in Manhattan exhibitions...
...again in the Press was news of the kind of change which L. S. F. S. A. P. E. C. R. is pledged to oppose to the death. Chile announced it is going to adopt a perpetual calendar, and in Dayton, Ohio the Federal Council of Churches opened its biennial meeting with the declaration that the great Christian churches of the world are now in substantial agreement concerning calendar reform...
Because Director Force's taste is as impeccable as her temper is robust, the Whitney biennial has acquired, with the passing years, an added importance. It has become about as accurate a thermometer as critics have to show the temperature and trends of current U. S. painting. Reading the Whitney thermometer as of last week it might be said that abstract painters and technical experimenters are rapidly vanishing. Most present-day artists are now concerned with such Americana as lynching, unemployment, militarism, middle-class stupidity, lower-class squalor. Dozens of able artists have in 1934 found bread lines...
...Whitney biennial has no jury, no admissions committee. Autocratically it invites each U. S. artist whom it considers worthy of the honor to submit the canvas that he considers most typical of his recent work. Though no prizes are given the show is not without its rewards, because the museum has set aside a fund ot $20,000 to buy pictures for its own collection. Almost all the other canvases are for sale...