Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past year, eight of the nine came to the U.S., took daytime jobs, spent their evenings painting. They hope that the Fordham exhibit will lead to commissions from U.S. churches, a chance to start another school and work full-time at their...
...year-old patriarch of Spanish art critics limped scornfully out of Madrid's baroque Crystal Palace. What shocked him, and many another Spaniard, was an exhibit of religious art from Roman Catholic mission fields. Traditionalist Spaniards looked with anger upon the freedom with which the faraway artists had rendered scantily clad Virgins, Chinese Holy Families, Indian Gods squatting Buddha-like-all dominated by a huge statue of Christ dressed as a sannyasi (Hindu ascetic) renouncing this world...
Jesuit Father Hernandez Heras, organizer of the exhibit, picked up d'Ors' idea of universalism and sailed it back. Could he accept "the Herculean forms of a prizefighter that Michelangelo gave God in the Sistine Chapel...the fat Flemish women Rubens painted as Virgins?" Heras, who teaches at St. Xavier's College, Bombay, thought some of the Indian types were "nearer to the Judean type of Jesus and the Holy Family than our classic figures...
President Truman circled the exhibit, inspected five bird paintings, drew up short before a placid brown & white bull. He was never aware, said Harry Truman pleasantly, that Audubon ever painted such a beast...
Victorians considered sparkling chandeliers the acme of drawing-room elegance, and they would have found Coming's 19th Century room, which looks cluttered to the 20th Century eye, just as artful and integrated as the modern exhibit. An expansive corner window, partly screened by spun-glass curtains, is the main feature of the modern room, where useless bric-a-brac has been replaced by Steuben's simple ash trays and an unconscionable quantity of crystal drinking equipment...