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...most art-minded towns in the U.S., Bloomington, Ill. (pop. 32,826) last week put on the first group exhibition in the U.S. composed entirely of paintings in the newly popular medium of gouaches (rhymes with squash). Moreover, in spite of a tiny budget, it got some of the best artists in the U.S. to exhibit...
Stretching its yearly budget of $75 to $315 by getting Illinois Wesleyan Uni versity as well as nearby Galesburg and Decatur to help out, the Bloomington Art Association invited top U.S. artists and galleries to send entries. Thirty-one bang-up paintings were submitted by such artists as Peter Hurd, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Fletcher Martin, John Steuart Curry, Aaron Boh-rod and Doris Lee. Bloomington's jury (headed by Chicago Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich) awarded a $100 prize to Raymond Breinin. Russian-born Artist Breinin's prize-winning picture was called The Night, depicted a somber, winged...
...Bloomington's gouache show was the idea of Illinois Wesleyan University's thin, goggle-eyed, 30-year-old Instructor Vincent Paul Quinn, who thought his students and art-loving Bloomingtonians ought to know about one of the most popular paint mediums...
Research scholarships to Howard M. Kohn, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, candidate for LL.B. University of Minnesota '41; Robert F. Ritchie, of Dallas, Texas, candidate for LL.B. Southern Methodist University '41; and Richard B. Townsend, of Bloomington, Indiana J. D. University of Iowa...
Thayer scholarships to Reginald H. Haskins, of North Bay, Out., Canada; Richard W. B. Lewis, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Ross F. Lockridge, Jr., of Bloomington, Ind.; and Charles H. Vivian, of Elizabeth...