Word: garbisch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...catalogue introduction, Curator John Walker achieves what is perhaps the best definition yet of "primitive painting"-at least as it applies to the Garbisch , collection. Underlying the whole show, Walker suggests, "is a method of delineation that is realistic but not naturalistic. It is an objective statement of fact to which lack of technical accomplishment adds a touch of fantasy. It is an idea of a person, a place, or an object, around which the artist, so to speak, puts a line. But such representation is rarely achieved without a certain stress and strain. Part of the charm of these...
...memorable display of the nation's early art from the grass roots opens this week in the cool marble splendor of Washington's National Gallery. The show includes more than 100 top items from the 1,500-picture collection amassed since World War II by Edgar William Garbisch-and his wife (the former Bernice Chrysler). The entire collection will eventually be presented to the National Gallery, making that repository of Old World masterpieces a good deal more "national" than heretofore...
Soon Tex caught an even more important eye-Walter Chrysler's. Colbert helped Chrysler's son-in-law Edgar Garbisch (the famed West Point center and dropkicker) organize Tish Inc. (paper handkerchiefs). Colbert did such a good job that when Chrysler wanted Nick Kelley to open an office in Chrysler's Detroit headquarters, Colbert was the natural choice...