Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like any show of its kind, the annual exhibition of contemporary U.S. art that opened in Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week bulged with duds. Artists not invited to exhibit would consider the show too small, but for gallerygoers it was far too big. Of the 161 painters represented, only a handful had fire...
Author collections may contain anything, from a writer's first editions to his private diary--letters, manuscripts, and critical works about him. Houghton's most famous is the Keats' collection, the world's best, much of which is one exhibit in the Library's special Keats room. The collection has many of the poet's letters and the manuscripts of a number of his poems, notably "The Eve of St. Agnes" and "To Autumn." Other collections range from John Donne and George Herbert to E. A. Robinson and Thomas Wolfe. Philip Hofer's Graphic Arts Collection is another prize feature...
...generous country. Most of this convincing has emanated from the various information missions of the Economic Cooperation Administration which pays out Marshall Plan Funds. ECA in France publishes a slick-paper monthly magazine, makes little instructive cartoon movies about the Marshall Plan aid, and runs a traveling agricultural exhibit supposed to convince French farmers that they could use a bright new ECA tractor. Other missions largely duplicate this pattern; all rely heavily on hand-outs to the local press for much of their publicity. Completing the propaganda facilities on our side are the various embassies, the United States Information Service...
...Also on exhibit are painted match box trays and containers, animal, lapel, pins, and greeting cards. There are etchings hand-tinted by W. Harry Smith and linoleum block prints of Boston and Cambridge by Louis Novak...
Museum Piece. In Philadelphia, the curious public, at the rate of 50,000 a day, was crowding into the Western Saving Fund Society to see its exhibit of $1,000,000 in currency...