Word: exhibited
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Biggest and best exhibit was called simply Allegory. It featured an umbrella, and a bar mirror to which had been affixed a cascade of crumpled tin. Bar mirrors are a bore, as filled with eyes sometimes as tapioca and they have a blandly unpleasant way of catching the drinker unawares. The tin in Allegory made a witty tasteful substitute for reflection. Esthetically, the umbrella, too, was a brilliant stroke, its sharply precise form and cloth texture in telling contrast to the gleaming glass and crumpled metal
Among Beckmann's sponsors in St. Louis was Department Store Tycoon Morton D. May, an energetic collector of modern art. Last week in pictures from May's collection were on exhibit in the spanking-new library of St. Louis University, and the hit of the show proved to be 48 Beckmanns, the biggest and best collection of Beckmann's oils anywhere...
...unfortunate tradition of innumerable German graphics at the Busch-Reisinger has been broken by its present exhibit of recent acquisitions. The new works of art, primarily from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, include religious sculpture and a fine fifteenth century Dutch painting--a pleasant exception to the Museum's unduly strict devotion to German...
...Especially beautiful is the 1918 pencil drawing, Bathers, which displays the sure control of sinuous line that characterized his so-called "Neo-Classical" period. Also of great interest is his View of Horta De Ebro, a small, lyric landscape done in 1900. The more than twenty pieces in this exhibit demonstrate the completeness and general high standards of the Fogg's acquisitions. For a university museum, one could hardly imagine a better record of connoisseurship...