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Manhattan gallerygoers, long familiar with Critic Cortissoz' crisply expressed enthusiasms and prejudices, were not surprised to find few 20th-century paintings in his hand-picked anthology. In the exclusive company of Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Renoir, only twelve U.S. artists (all dead) made the grade...
Thus Knoedler's (celebrating its 95th birthday) last week celebrated Royal Cortissoz' 50th anniversary as an art critic (for the New York Herald Tribune) with an exhibition of the pictures the twinkling old gentleman liked best in the whole...
This week the proofs of a volume* of Hawthorne aphorisms, exhortations and technical advice, assembled from notes taken by his students, appeared with a warm introduction by venerable Critic Royal Cortissoz. Made up of brief, pungent essays on water color and oil painting, followed by paragraphs devoted to Hawthorne comments on specific work by his students, Hawthorne an Painting proved an excellent introduction for laymen and students alike...
...work Critic Elliot Paul wrote: "She has no formula. Each painting is a separate problem, and her palette is rich and varied enough to deal with it freshly." And even conservative, bang-haired Royal Cortissoz spoke largely of her promise...
...week the Museum of Modern Art was proud to give a great retrospective show to the work of George Caleb Bingham (1811-79). Critics fell over themselves with such phrases as "a modern Delacroix," "last of the Renaissance tradition," "rival of David and Ingres." Only cautious bang-haired Royal Cortissoz sounded a note of doubt in the general acclaim for George Caleb Bingham: "There is no distinction of style about his work. He was a mildly competent, mildly interesting practitioner, whose local legend may well be revived as a matter of pious courtesy...