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...tremendous loan exhibitions, sponsored by its patron, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. Just as worthy, though it can seldom be seen, is its permanent collection, based on the private collection of French masters assembled by the late Lillie P. Bliss. Most popular recent acquisition: The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali's famed Surrealist panel of limp watches on a dead tree. Last week preliminary plans were filed by Architect Philip Goodwin for a new building to allow more of this permanent collection to remain on view while the loan shows continue...
...Daytona Beach branch of the National League of American Penwomen. At the end of the book are appended, without any explanation, 98 pictures, starting with prehistoric rock carvings, showing 29 Logan prizewinners plus other canvases of mediocre representational cast, plus still more by Cezanne, Seurat, van Gogh, Gauguin, Salvador Dali...
Traveling to Chicago, Surrealist Salvador Dali telegraphed ahead to a friend to notify the press he was coming. Upon arrival he went quickly to the Art Institute, had himself photographed beside one of his paintings while Mrs. Dali gurgled: "Isn't it awful? He has to submit to this everywhere...
...Salvador Dali was first brought to the U. S. and given an exhibition in 1934 under the sponsorship of Dealer Julien Levy. Immediately one picture created a sensation. Entitled The Persistence of Memory, it showed a group of watches, limp as dead flounders and crawling with insects, drooping from the branches of a dead tree by the seaside, all this on a panel the size of a sheet of typewriter paper and painted in color as brilliant as a Flemish primitive. It now belongs to the Museum of Modern Art and was a headliner in last week's exhibition...
...Artist Dali who wears a knitted Catalan liberty cap whenever possible, takes surrealism in dead earnest, but has a faculty for publicity which should turn any circus pressagent green with envy. On his first arrival in the U. S. he solemnly explained: "I used to balance two broiled chops on my wife's shoulders, and then by observing the movement of tiny shadows produced by the accident of the meat on the flesh of the woman I love while the sun was setting, I was finally able to attain images sufficiently lucid and appetizing for exhibition in New York...