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...Groschwitz introduces 99 foreign artists and 54 U.S. artists to the Carnegie. None of the newcomers won prizes, although, of course, a jury went through the dismal ritual of choosing and awarding. The jury, composed of former Baltimore Museum Director Adelyn Breeskin, Abstractionist Hans Hartung, and British Picasso Expert...
Last week the Washington Daily News got around to a critique of one of the country's better-known piano players. Wrote News Guest Columnist (and Shoreham Hotel Bandleader) Barnee Breeskin, fresh from half an hour's "elbow-range" observation of Harry Truman...
...short, concluded Critic Breeskin, "The guy's good...
While the guests sipped & supped at ten round tables, Concert Pianist Jose Iturbi and Barriee Breeskin, one of Washington society's favorite orchestra leaders, took turns at the piano. After the last toast, the President strolled to the piano himself, rendered a competent Paderewski Minuet in G and a work of Chopin whose title escaped him. General George Marshall and Presidential Adviser John Steelman joined the three piano players for a friendly argument about music. "I'm nuts about Chopin," said the President...
Assembled from museums and private collections all over the U.S. and installed in the Baltimore Museum by the No. 1 Cassatt expert, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, the show contained 156 of Mary Cassatt's finest oils, pastels, dry points, color prints and drawings, surrounded with side shows of letters, photographs and paintings by such famed Cassatt contemporaries as Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Auguste Renoir. For Mary Cassatt, who went to Europe in 1868 to study art, lived there the rest of her long life, an expatriate American, never got full recognition from either France...