Word: corcorans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hurdles--Won by McCormick (H); 2, Dwyer (RIS); 3, Corcoran (RIS). Time...
...Corcoran Gallery in Washington staged its 21st biennial exhibition last week. Designed to be a cross section of contemporary U.S. art, the show should have been as exciting an event as most of the Corcoran's past shows. Actually, it was no such thing...
...pictures on exhibition, 174 had been invited by the Corcoran jury. They included more or less competent work by most of the noted U.S. painters. But there was nothing surprising in the lot. The other 13 pictures in the show-culled from 2,000 entries in open competition-were no better and no worse than the invited ones. The New York World-Telegram's Emily Genauer, one of the few U.S. art critics with a nose for news, set out to discover how the jury had operated...
...jury was composed of Corcoran Director Hermann Warner Williams Jr. and three painters: abstractionist Abraham Rattner, landscape and genre painter Paul Sample, and Pepsi-Cola Prizewinner Mitchell Jamieson (TIME, Oct. 4). Together they had spent a day in Manhattan and another in Washington, rejected close to 1,000 pictures (including some by top-notch artists) at each stop. What, Miss Genauer wanted to know, had been their basis of judgment...
...Joan paintings are as rich in detail as the film, but they maintain a heroic, friezelike directness and a lightness of touch that the $9,000,000 Technicolor production seldom matches. Hollywood borrowed, but could not beat, the Corcoran's Boutet de Monvel...