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...artists is New York's Edward Hopper. Bald, shy, studious, 52, he started as a figure painter, earned his living for years as a magazine illustrator. He now devotes himself almost exclusively to landscapes, painting the same sort of villas, lighthouses, railroad yards as does Charles Burchfield, with whom he is usually coupled in the public mind, but with brighter color in a lighter, cheerier...
...Thomas Benton is the most virile of U. S. painters of the U. S. Scene the honor of being a pioneer in the movement belongs to Charles Ephraim Burchfield, 41. a tailor's son from Ash tabula Harbor, Ohio. In his childhood Burchfield found nothing so fascinating as tumble-down houses, freight trains, railroad tracks. Today most up-to-date museums have Burchfields.. Not so spectacular a draughtsman as Benton, Burchfield manages to invest his paintings with a calm if somewhat dismal dignity and an exceptionally acute feeling for light and space. He lives in an eight-room frame...
Size was the big thing about the Municipal Show. In 33 multicolored galleries were decently spaced 1,250 exhibits by some 450 artists whose styles ranged from the clatter of a Biberman to the dignified craft of a Watrous. Included were such familiar U. S. names as Sterne, Burchfield, Speicher, Hopper, O'Keeffe, Jo Davidson (who did a special LaGuardia bust) Benianimo Bufano, Mahonri Young...
Such outstanding painters as Charles Burchfield. Preston Dickinson, Edward Hopper, and John Marin are represented in the display of water colors in gallery 9, while in gallery 14 are a group of oils by such French painters as Dapra Millet, and de la Pena. The majority of these were given to the Museum, and one by Ralph Isham '88, the donor the organ in the Memorial Church. The Japanese prints are hung in gallery 15 and, in gallery 16 are a group of Chinese bronzes, pottery, woods, and other objects jets...
...real light. The 100 artist contributors make an almost perfect score of hits in the great game called "Understanding America." Drawings by Peter Arno, Otto Soglow, other New Yorker artists; photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Anton Bruehl; paintings by George Bellows, Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keefe, Morris Kantor, Charles Burchfield et al. are intermingled with sculptural figures, early American paintings to make a vivid tout ensemble...