Word: gantlet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite as free, of course, for only Europeans with invitations would be admitted, and U. S. contributors would be made to run the critical gantlet as usual. But Director St. Gaudens had been impressed by the insistence of Europeans that "the weakest painters brought in by direct invitation would be distinctly better than the best to be had through a jury." He had issued some 250 invitations to painters in 16 countries. At the instance of Mr. Julius Mihalik of the Cleveland School of Art he had invited Hungarian artists for the first time, also adding Norway and Roumania...