Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public last week got its answer to the big question: When, and on what scale, was the automobile industry going to turn its mass-production genius into the job of building airplanes for national defense? Fortnight ago, Ford and Chrysler announced that they would help with the business of building bombers. Last week the rest of the answer came from G. M.'s President Charles Erwin Wilson (successor to Big Bill Knudsen). General Motors was going into the bomber business, too. From the three, the U. S. should get its bombers at the rate of 5,000 a year...
Insured for $1,019,000, Chrysler's art show contained 89 Picassos, 31 Légers, 15 Braques, 13 Hans Arps, enough Derains, Matisses, de Chiricos and Rouaults to fill several galleries. It was the biggest and Bourbonniest modern art show Virginia had ever seen, and many a colonel and drawling belle murmured soft but outspoken remarks like "baffling," "Don't see why it's art anyway," "Goddamndest thing I ever saw." Only artist present who was represented in the show was greying, thickset Fernand Léger, who couldn't be lionized because almost nobody...
Thirty-one-year-old, wavy-haired Walter P. Chrysler Jr., scion of Chrysler Motors, has collected paintings since he was 14. He probably owns more modern French art than any U. S. collector except Philadelphia's terrible-tempered Albert ("Argyrol") Barnes. Up to last week, Collector Chrysler had never showed the public how much...
...last week young Mr. Chrysler got his chance. Richmond's five-year-old Virginia Museum of Fine Arts put the whole Chrysler collection on exhibition, and 989 art lovers including Richmond's floweriest socialites went to look. To do right by the occasion, Collector Chrysler chartered a private railroad car, arrived in Richmond with 58 convivial friends. While a 15-piece orchestra played waltzes by Johann Strauss, Mr. Chrysler and friends leaped joyfully up the Museum's wide staircases to his very own art show...
...Thomas Colt Jr. thought the show would "liberate some people's ideas of what art is," thought it might even result in a Virginia branch of the Society for Sanity in Art. Said he: "I hope there will be a few healthy fights down here." Meanwhile Walter P. Chrysler Jr. beamed, sipped punch, talked with strained, avid interest to Richmond's white-haired matrons. Said he: "Art is always the vanguard of civilization...