Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human body for itself. His calm impressive figures are almost expressionless; so too is his latest model, a strapping Greek beauty of such vast placidity that the Matisses, father & son, found it almost impossible to carry on even the simplest conversation with her. What Pierre Matisse had to exhibit last week were 19 drawings of the lady from various angles. Preliminary studies for sculpture, far more finished than most sculptors' sketches, they were priced from...
Although almost all of the pictures depicting the Sacco-Vanzetti affair merge on caricature, there is more of art than mere clever distortion in these gouaches. When the exhibit appeared at the Downtown Gallery in New York City, many were inclined to dismiss the whole of Shahn's work as comic-strip treatment of more serious topics, yet even the poignancy that speaks from each picture is testimony that there is something more permanent than grim humor here...
Persisting in its efforts to trace the origins of modern French painting, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week called in the assistance of the American Institute for Persian Art & Archaeology. Between them they presented potent evidence in an exhibit of reproductions of 17th Century Persian frescoes which one Sarkis Katchadourian has spent two years laboriously copying in gouache on paper, reproductions which mimic exactly the patches of new plaster, the splatter of the original frescoer's brush. As in Paris, where the reproductions were first exhibited, critics were amused to note that painters apparently copied Marie...
Columbia University, a frequent U. S. commemorator, was to have opened a library exhibit of Scottiana, with items loaned by Owen D. Young and John P. Morgan. Because of delay in printing catalogs it was postponed until Oct. 1. But one Scott celebration did come off last week, surprisingly enough in the Hebrew Cultural Gardens in Rockefeller Park in Cleveland, an enterprise designed by the Cleveland Gan Ivri League (Hebrew Garden League, a woman's organization) to include symbolic German, Italian and Polish gardens...
...Widener Memorial Room is displaying a small exhibit of first editions and manuscripts of the Waverley Novels by Sir Walter Scott in honor of his centenary...