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Fourteen artists who have had good luck in selling pictures through loan exhibitions promptly resigned from the Painters, Sculptors & Gravers. As prominent as any of the boycotters, they included Guy Pene du Bois, Charles Burchfield, Eugene Speicher, William Glackens, Charles Hopkinson, John Carroll, Mahonri Young, Henry Mattson, John Sloan, Judson Smith...
Second ($600) and third ($500) prizes went respectively to Gardenville, N. Y.'s Charles Burchfield for a large brownish watercolor of a logger's shed in a gloomy cypress swamp in wintertime, and to Woodstock's Henry Mattson for a seascape of wild waves and seagulls painted in fuzzy Cezannesque technique...
Bohrod is an able realist, somewhat after the manner of Charles Burchfield. A quality of charming naïveté arose from his photographically detailed landscapes into which he had put every broken bottle, trash heap, For Rent sign he had seen. In one picture the sign on a store, "Bohrod & Son. Est. 1934," was painted in just after his son's birth...
...artists. Three months ago she gave a group of her bargains to Dartmouth College. Last week she gave most of the rest to the Museum of Modern Art. There were 181 water colors, drawings and a few paintings by 71 men and women, including Peter Blume, Alexander Brook, Charles Burchfield, André Derain, John Kane the housepainter (see above), Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso. Said the Museum's President, A. Conger Goodyear: "Next to the bequest of Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Rockefeller's gift is the most important one that the Museum...
...Museum's second floor was devoted to modern pictures by such standbys as Marsh, Curry, Benton, Biddle, Hopper, Burchfield, Sloan, et al. More interesting were the 19th Century paintings that filled the ground floor-sentimental middle-class canvases by comfortable middle-class artists entirely unaware of breadlines, the plight of the masses, the villainy of capitalists or any of the other things that excited the brushes of their successors upstairs...