Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Director Homer St. Gaudens of the Fine Arts section of the Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh) last week returned from Europe with an announcement that made the art world sit up and exclaim, "Well, well! That will be interesting...
...Director St. Gaudens announced that the Institute's annual international exhibit* of paintings would consist of work by artists invited to contribute anything they chose and not, as always heretofore, of canvases selected by a jury. The one big international exhibit in the U. S., in other words, was to be almost as free and spontaneous as the annual circus of the independent U. S. artists...
...quite as free, of course, for only Europeans with invitations would be admitted, and U. S. contributors would be made to run the critical gantlet as usual. But Director St. Gaudens had been impressed by the insistence of Europeans that "the weakest painters brought in by direct invitation would be distinctly better than the best to be had through a jury." He had issued some 250 invitations to painters in 16 countries. At the instance of Mr. Julius Mihalik of the Cleveland School of Art he had invited Hungarian artists for the first time, also adding Norway and Roumania...
President George L. Mackintosh of Wabash College, extended his retrospect, to cover the whole 20 years of his administration, for he had resigned (voluntarily), and would soon be succeeded by Dr. Louis B. Hopkins, personnel director of Northwestern University. Dr. E. G. Cutshall of West Virginia Wesleyan (Buckhannon, W. Va.) was to be succeeded by Dr. Homer B. Wark of Boston University...
...there is a lowlier empire in which Mr. James is a conspicuous servant of those who serve. To religion, to charity, he gives lavishly both time and money. Of the eminent liberal Union Theological Seminary he is a director...