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...Grant Wood's tufted Fall Plowing, to represent Iowa; John Steuart Curry's praying Negroes in a flood, which Curry called The Mississippi and the book labels Tennessee; John Falter's End of School (Pennsylvania); Dong Kingman's watercolor, Morning in New Orleans; Charles Burchfield's The Great Elm (New York). George Grosz's Tobacco Road looked as if he had seen the stage play, but not Georgia. A boy holding a lemon was labeled Boston; a picked chicken hanging on a door, Ohio. The attempt to label the paintings by states showed...
Last week, Philadelphia gallery-goers found the ranks of the Academy's 140th annual show suitably stiffened with such veterans of the U.S. Old Guard as John Sloan, Alexander Brook, Charles Burchfield, Thomas Benton. They also found some of the most unacademic art now being done in the U.S. The Pennsylvania Academy itself shucked tradition by giving its coveted Temple Medal to an out-&-out esthetic experimentalist: 51-year-old Abraham Rattner, a Paris-trained New Yorker...
...confused with Painter Charles Ephraim Burchfield, who is also Ohio-born, also trained at Cleveland School...
...started with a $6,000 allotment from the Public Buildings Administration, picked the Marine Hospital at Carville, La., where some 400 lepers needed cheering up, and announced a nationwide water color competition. Bruce got together a jury of four well-known U.S. water-colorists (Eliot O'Hara, Charles Burchfield, John Marin, Buk Ulreich) and told them to pick 300 pictures, 200 to be purchased with Government funds, 100 with a Carnegie Corporation fund of $3,000. Pictures were to be paid for at a uniform price: $30. Any extra pictures the jury selected were to be sold...
...fell as the concealed lights filled the rooms with an almost perfect synthetic daylight, were tickled with everything. They got a familiar pleasure from such standard brands as George Luks's gamey Mrs. Gamley, George Bellows' Dempsey and Firpo, John Sloan's Backyards, Greenwich Village, Charles Burchfield's Old House by the Creek, Max Weber's The Chinese Restaurant. Most of the 30 newly acquired works were new only to the Whitney Museum, added to the housewarming without spoiling the old home mood...