Word: exhibition
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador. Georgi Nikolayevitch Zarubin had never been in Canada before, but he was no stranger to North America. As an engineer, he helped run the Soviet Exhibit at the New York World's Fair, then went home to head up the Kremlin's North American department. With him to Canada he brought his wife, their 14-year-old son Victor, six trunks, twelve suitcases and the 65-volume Soviet Encyclopedia (Moscow's official compendium of information about the U.S.S.R.). After the barest formalities he settled down to run Ottawa's Soviet Embassy. Under a Minister...
...second floor crammed with modern paintings, owned and loaned. Prize of the exhibit (which included practically every modern artist of note from Degas to Miro): Pablo Picasso's Woman Seated before a Mirror...
...Yorkers flocked to see an unusual exhibit, "a creature called a Japanese, about two feet high, his body resembling a human body in all parts except the feet and the tail...
Very much alive at his exhibit was Artist Biddle, who, like his lawyer brother, is bony, fidgety and gimlet-eyed. Said he: "Ninety-nine percent of our frontline men will shoot on sight any Congressman who interferes with soldier votes, or annihilate all war-plant strike fomenters-and that means the [Montgomery Ward] Averys...
...Independents exhibit the work of anybody who can put up the $5 entrance fee. This year's exhibitors included a bartender, several housewives, a cowpuncher, a brassiere manufacturer, an Internal Revenue agent. There was also solid work by such established artists as Jose de Creeft, John Sloan (Independents' President), John Taylor Arms, Walter Pach...