Word: cheney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...zanne's works published nearly two years ago by Venturi. For the Barnes Bathers: 1900-05; for the Widener Bathers, 1898-1905. Collector Sam A. Lewisohn, who happened to be in Philadelphia, was saddened by the dispute. "Art is too beautiful to argue about," said he. Critic Sheldon Cheney opined that Les Grandes Baigneuses was not Cézanne's "best" but could not be called "fifth-rate" either. Philadelphia newspapers solemnly baited Dr. Barnes with the discovery that whereas there were 16 nude figures in the Museum's painting, the Barnes Bathers numbered only eight...
...engravings at the other. The remarkable History of Art of Elie Faure, who died fortnight ago, actually a long, interpretative essay, left still undone the work of writing a factual history of art from an enlightened, modern point of view. This week a large, clear book by Critic Sheldon Cheney* seemed to fill the bill...
Unlike another recent art historian, Hendrik Willem van Loon (TIME, Oct. 4), Critic Cheney has stuck to the visual arts and has in fact written about them, not confining himself to their "background."' Showing a desirable respect for his material, he has also illustrated his book with nearly 500 reproductions of works of art, rather than with sketches of his own. The Cheney history has positive virtues of completeness, modesty and readability, avoids alike the arrogance of parochial "moderns" and the bluster of hidebound conservatives...
...regions by which the art map has been enlarged are geographic-Chinese, Japanese and Indian art; and temporal- the prehistoric art of the cave dwellers, the Sumerians, Hittites, Assyrians, Egyptians. These Author Cheney illuminates at length, scrupulously giving facts, interpretation and speculation for what they are worth. In this perspective, European art and artists assume new proportions and come under new categories. Reasons appear for praising El Greco more than Botticelli and Raphael. But though Author Cheney thus revaluates Western art by a universal standard of "formal values," he recognizes the greatness of illustrative, objective art. By the time...
President Claudius T. Murchison of the Cotton Textile Institute called the bill "administratively impossible to the point of grotesqueness." Managing Director Roy A. Cheney of the Underwear Institute said the Board members ought to be paid $20,000 a year, given lifetime jobs, if Congress was determined to give any men such powers. He filed 28 typed pages of suggested changes in the bill. Sears, Roebuck's President Robert E. Wood felt that instead of permitting the Board at its option to employ advisers in fixing wages & hours for a particular industry, they should be compelled to appoint advisory...