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...onetime Futurist who has come back to Tuscany; Pirandello, son of the playwright; Carra, another Futurist who now paints slablike figure studies; Campigli, a respected abstractionist and fresco painter; Cagli, who uses with more talent than most the prevailing umbers, reds and sombre blues of the Italian school; Casorati, winner of this year's second prize at the Carnegie; the eminent metaphysical painter de Chirico and his funny brother Savinio...
Masterpieces at the Carnegie show in abstract or other methods of painting were conspicuously rare. Second prize ($600) was awarded for Woman Near a Table, a semi-nude against a clever perspective, done in sombre blues and browns by Italian Felice Casorati. Neither this nor the third prize ($500) winner, Family Portrait by young Josef Pieper of Düsseldorf, Germany, was distinguished by that finality of excellence which makes good critics stand long and stare. Nazi Pieper's painting, which this year won the State Prize for painting at the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, seemed to many...
...again a committee of artists announced the award of three prizes at the opening of the International Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. The committee were all judges of repute: spectacled Eugene Speicher of . the U. S. (an intimate friend of the late George Bellows), sharp-faced Felice Casorati of Italy, calm Abram Poole of the U. S., Horatio Walker of the U. S., jaunty Maurice Denis of France, white-tufted Maurice Greiffenhagen of England, bald Karl Hofer of Germany, Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens* of the U. S. (Director, of. Fine Arts at the Carnegie Institute), and Eugene Savage...
Italy. An impeccable little "Nude" by Ubaldo Oppi of Milan, which won a prize of $1,000; reticent violence in a dreaming young girl, "Cinthia," by Felice Casorati...
Modern Italian Art. "Italian Art has grown rapidly in importance. . . . Not only will Italy be represented by such of its more widely known men as Tito and Mancini, but by others of the younger school . . . Casorati and Carona . . . and Romagnoli, who won the second prize at the Carnegie Institute last year...
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