Word: exhibitioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Bishop Barnes opens a missionary exhibition with African settings (see cut) his mind is likely to be on the evidences of primitive mankind in Africa. As a scientific man of God, he is shrewd, erudite, pragmatical. The impact of science on the views of Bishop Barnes has lately produced...
In 1929 hard-boiled Dr. Albert C. Barnes of Merion, Pa. sold his Argyrol rights to Zonite Products Corp., pocketed his millions and concentrated, in his French Renaissance chateau behind a loft. fence, upon the finest collection of modern art in the U. S. He never lends pictures for outside...
In 1930 Dr. Barnes had an idea. The one living painter for whom he could do nothing was in the U. S. as a juryman for the Carnegie International Exhibition (in Pittsburgh): Henri Matisse, greatest survivor of the Post-Impressionists.∙ Matisse is famed, rich, old (63). The climax piece...
The space was difficult. The problem of relating the color to the living greens outside was difficult. A master at color problems, Matisse produced in April, 1932, after two years' work, Danse Heroique, six grey nudes dancing against vertical bands of pink, blue and black. As it neared completion...
In Madrid, U. S. Ambassador Claude Gernade Bowers went to his first bullfight, held in honor of a gathering of European beauty queens. Afterwards he declared: "I was tremendously impressed . . . memories of spectacles in ancient Rome! I have never seen such color and tensity in a crowd. The action of...