Word: exhibitioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"This is the finest exhibition of American pictures, sculpture and etchings that has ever been held in New York, taken all in all.
Messrs. Hackenbruch, Rosenbaum & Goldschmidt immediately put the Welfenschatz on public exhibition, first in Frankfort, later in Berlin. Seldom in the past 800 years have people been permitted to see it. Railways ran excursions from all over Germany, from France, Hungary, Poland. Day after day the museums were crowded with throngs...
The National Academy of Design, U. S. Art's most venerable institution, last week opened the chaste doors of its annual exhibition just after the Academy's president, white-haired Architect Cass Gilbert (Woolworth Building) had faced a radio microphone and announced:
Most newsworthy exhibit was a huge canvas that never got into the exhibition proper at all, was hung apologetically in the lobby. It was a picture of four bleary-eyed topers in a club smoking room, entitled "Speaking of Prohibition." It was painted by that famed oldtimer, Charles Dana Gibson...
"It is artistic but exceedingly facetious. It is in a comic vein not exactly in keeping with the exhibition as a whole."