Word: catalog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...limp watches of surrealism all the disdain of the conservative National Academy of Design. The basis of their philosophy is that a picture should not attempt to represent anything or suggest anything, should be an exercise in pure form, sufficient unto itself. In the introduction to the elaborate catalog of last week's show the Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, moderately well-known as an abstractionist in her own right, wrote...
...Albright Gallery had nothing of its own to match these in quality there was at least one other public service it could perform. It published an elaborate catalog illustrating each piece with a full-page plate and giving a scholarly introduction to each section of the catalog. These were not prepared by the Buffalo Museum's staff but by leading authorities in the U. S. on each particular field. Orientalist Arthur Upham Pope wrote on Persian bronzes, the Metropolitan's Gisela M. A. Richter covered those of Greece and Rome, Art Dealer Stephan Bourgeois wrote on modern bronzes...
...which got under way last summer and developed into the most significant economic trend of 1936 has not carried through to any important extent into the general retail price level. Nor do all merchants expect the retail rise to come this spring. In Montgomery Ward's spring & summer catalog, out last week, mail-order prices were actually down by about...
About six months ago the Tate Gallery got out a new catalog of its modern French paintings. Under the name of each artist was a brief and extremely reticent biography. One of these referred to a Spanish artist named Maurice Utrillo, 1883-deceased, painter of Paris street scenes. Within a week the catalog was withdrawn from circulation and a correction was made, but to no avail...
...Spanish and not dead is Maurice Utrillo and last week under Britain's stringent libel laws he brought suit against the Tate Gallery, its director, James Bolivar Manson, and the former Lord Mayor of London, Sir William Waterlow, whose firm had printed the catalog. The Tate Gallery's smart lawyers quickly ap peared before the Master in Chambers and obtained an Order for Security Costs, which means that Plaintiff Utrillo must deposit a bond showing that he is able to pay the costs of the trial before his case can be heard. Even so, lawyers knowing the history...