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...Artist Wood's picture of the bleak, bald Iowa farmer with the pitchfork and his daughter with the cameo and the printed apron has become almost as well known to the U. S. Public as Washington Crossing the Delaware. Yet not until last week did Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries succeed in borrowing American Gothic from the Art Institute of Chicago, Dinner for Threshers from Stephen C. Clark of New York, Birthplace of Herbert Hoover from Gardner Cowles Jr. of Des Moines, Fall Plowing from Marshall Field of New York, the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere from...
...engraving of Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware. Since last January, it has been the property of Emanuel Goldenberg of Bucharest. Rumania, better known to the U. S.'public as Cinemactor Edward G. Robinson (The Whole Town's Talking). Patient Actor Robinson, who walked into the Ferargil Galleries and paid cash for it, was unable to enjoy his picture until last month when it was released from the Grant Wood show in Chicago's Lake-side Press Galleries...
Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries this week turned their walls over to able 47-year-old Russell Cowles. Interesting, salable, the canvases on view varied in style from Cezannesque still lifes and New Mexican street scenes and landscapes to wild abstractions and such extreme experiments as Artist Cowles' self-portrait in a bathtub...
Sculpture is a heavy medium for humor. An exhibition by Detroit-born Stuart Benson at the Ferargil Galleries attracted attention last week because of a group of carved caricatures. Two were excellent, those of Adolf Hitler and of long-haired Gilbert White, the U. S.-born professional Montparnasse Bohemian (TIME, April 2). The rest of the 23 figures in the Benson show-garden figures, portrait heads, busts-were carefully wrought, eminently worthy. Like so many of his compatriots Sculptor Benson was a longtime resident of France. Left high by the receding dollar, he avoided Paris, ran a studio...
Presented with their best year in five, dealers were again beginning to take cocktails with luncheon. The public's interest in art was proved by museum attendances which were uniformly up over last year. In one month in Manhattan, Ferargil Galleries' annual Artists' Relief Exhibition netted more than $2,000 with pictures priced at $5-$50. U. S. sales of the year were a Charles Willson Peale Washington to the Brooklyn Museum (price undisclosed) ; an early Rembrandt of Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet to the Chicago Art Institute; Jean Antoine Watteau's Mezzetin to the Metropolitan Museum for some...