Word: ferargil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downcast was Artist Curry who, though his apple-face looks cheerful, is actually a hypersensitive, self-doubting man who has decided half a dozen times he is no painter. Not a Kansas hog or tornado was to be seen last week on the walls of Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries. Kansas' Curry had now gone, not back to Kansas, but to the circus...
Cats. One of Paul Fiene's best cat statues was not on view in his own exhibition last week but up on 57th Street where the Ferargil Galleries held an elaborate cat show. Following a showing of cats in art at the little Maurel Gallery year ago (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931) Ferargil showed not only paintings and statues of cats, but cat prints, cat bookends, cat doorstops, cat ash trays, cat hooked rugs, cat footstools. Besides Paul Fiene's rather heraldic cat couchant, notable cats were those by William Zorach, Peggy Bacon. Agnes Tait, Tsugoharu Foujita...
Critics found Artist Stallknecht's mural raw, bold, naive, much like the works she exhibited in Manhattan's Ferargil galleries last May. Critics also recalled that modernized divinities are nothing new; Jacob Epstein's Christ was much discussed for his negroid appearance. Nor are real faces in religious pictures rare; many an Italian and Flemish noble and magnifico got himself and his offspring into a "Holy Family...
...except two classes: the dignified old dealers like Macbeth and the very young, radical galleries not likely to want the same pictures as the Metropolitan, like the Rehn, Downtown and Milch Galleries. Curator Burroughs selected two painters each from the Macbeth, Rehn, Downtown and Milch Galleries and one from Ferargil. Several good examples by each man were sent to the Museum. Next part of the spree was by the Board of Trustees' Committee on Painting, long a rampart of conservatism. Committee conservatives are Architect Cass Gilbert, Lawyers Elihu Root Jr., William Church Osborn and Sugarman Horace Havemeyer...
Trembling with excitement, a functionary of Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries telephoned frantically last week...