Word: corcorans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every day for six months, visitors to the Corcoran Gallery in Washington had asked to see "the Joan of Arc pictures", and had been disappointed. The room in which Maurice Boutet de Monvel's six great paintings hung was closed for repairs. By the time it reopened this week, gallery officials were convinced that the paintings, donated by the late Senator William A. Clark of Montana, were among the most popular in its collection...
...disputandum" - Laurence Sterne, in Tristram Shandy As far as many U.S. citizens are concerned, biting asses' tails, as a leisure occupation, is not much more inexplicable than a lively taste for modern art, especially if it is abstractionist art. What's more - as Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art has good reason to know - the public gets disputing mad about it. The gallery's biennial shows of current U.S. painting invariably cause a loud outcry of outrage...
Clear & Teary. Last month the Corcoran put on a show to put the protests in perspective: a selection of some 59 paintings most representative of a century (1830-1930) of U.S. painting, set side by side with what contemporary critics had said about the works. The show's title was to the point: "De Gustibus . . ." Double the usual crowds went to the Corcoran...
Apples & Attraction. The Corcoran induced its visitors to write down what they liked and why. One well-established, if conservative, point of view came from a man who particularly liked William J. Glackens' Nude with Apple (1910): "Of all things on earth,'women are the most beautiful, and this is an honest picture of an attractive woman." One young woman seemed to have got the Kunastrokian point the show was intended to make. She liked the paintings of the 19305 (which included works of ultra-Modernists Abraham Rattner and Karl Knaths)-just "because is because is because...
...three-man professional jury, asked to judge the Corcoran Gallery of Art's annual show of local artists, decided to apply strict professional standards to what is largely an amateur event. They found only 18 paintings worth hanging on the wall. That left more than 1,000 entries (painters of every school, from mock-Picassos to mock-realists) out in the cold. To comfort the rejected artists, the Corcoran hung their pictures in another part of the gallery...