Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NONE NONE 25 0 Monadnock Region, N. H. NONE NONE 30 0 Newfound Region, N. H. POOR POOR 20 6 North Conway, N. H. POOR POOR 18 10 North Woodstock, N. H. POOR POOR 18 23 Pinkham Notch, N. H. POOR POOR 14 23 Plymouth Notch, N. H. FAIR FAIR 20 5 Stowe, Vt. POOR POOR 24 14 Sunapee Region, N. H. NONE NONE 24 0 Tamworth Region, N. H. POOR POOR 28 10 Warren, N. H. POOR POOR 22 11 Waterville Valley, N. H. GOOD FAIR 20 10 Whitefield, N. H. NONE NONE 26 0 White River...
...nearly a year the Fair's Board of Design has been holding inconclusive meetings with representatives of 16 artists' associations who thought something should be done for contemporary U. S. art at the Fair but had no very clear notion what. One reason they were up in the air was that no free ground, no building for an art exhibition had been allotted in the original plans. Artists with an exalted idea of what the World's Fair should be gradually began to get sore about this...
Last week a letter appeared in the New York Post from Paul Manship, who is designing the most prominent sculpture at the Fair, recalling that "even Chicago counterbalanced its fan dancer with a world-famous art exhibit" (at the Art Institute, a mile away from the fair grounds), and boldly asking his clients: "Are exhibitions at the Fair to be limited to products that carry a price tag? ... Is this to be a World's Fair worthy of New York, or another glorified Coney Island...
...this first bean-spilling, gardenia-loving Grover Whalen replied that the Fair Corporation could not provide safe housing for a costly art exhibition unless it erected a permanent, fireproof building, unlike the temporary structures planned for the Fair. Instead of this, he said, arrangements were being made with the Metropolitan Museum (eight miles from the fair grounds) "and other like institutions" to hold exhibitions presumably like Chicago's. This message, which also appeared in the Post, was brought to the regular meeting between the artists' representatives and the Fair Board of Design. Mr. Manship's fellow artists...
Soon a second, more elaborate announcement from Grover Aloysius Whalen reached Manhattan city desks. Remembering what he had not remembered before, Mr. Whalen called attention to "a major art project for the New York World's Fair of 1939" involving a Community Arts Centre, where workers in the arts will display the processes of painting, sculpture and printing. "Through these 'arts in production'," said Mr. Whalen, "we hope to bring home to the average man that a work of art is not something conceived on Olympus but is produced by people very much like himself...