Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highlights the situation more clearly than the early works of Paul Klee. The etchings Head of Menace and Virgin in a Tree are works of quality and excellent draughtsmanship, yet their overbearing concern for the histrionics of their subject matter works against them. Moreover, the later Klees in the exhibit avoid histrionics, as their subject matter is relegated to a whimsical leitmotif, subordinated to the wholly poetic studies in color and shape. This latter group incidentally has long represented Klee in exhibitions of the so-called French school. They are works whose universal qualities transcend the mannerisms...
...directors, however, have done a particularly fine job of selecting works for this exhibition which attempt to speak for themselves rather than for a school or philosophy. Kirchner, for instance, looks far more effective here with his early canvases than he did at the recent European masters exhibit in Boston...
...last: Oklahoma Oilman Frank C. Henderson) who once (1947) hoisted a thin-shanked, 72-year-old leg onto a table at the Metropolitan Opera House bar ("What's Marlene Dietrich got that I ain't got?") and gloated in her success as every tabloid spread the exhibit across the nation (East German propaganda displayed it as a sign of "Life in America" degeneracy); of the infirmities of age; in Manhattan...
...first exhibit, dealing with the period from 1890 to 1915, will continue through December. The second, covering the period from 1915, to the present, will be held early next year...
...illuminations, medieval illustrations in book form, are, perhaps, most welcome, since it is these one ordinarily has least opportunity to see. Important canvases in private collections usually find their way to loan exhibitions, but such treasures as these, difficult to exhibit, rarely get a chance to circulate. Done throughout Europe at a time when art and life were by no means considered independent entities, these subtle masterpieces of the late middle ages and early renaissance possess the virtue of being eternally modern...