Word: gauguins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shepherds may not be by Rubens at all; the Titian, not by Titian. The Leonardo pages, installed in a sort of dim mortuary chapel of their own, look ridiculously anticlimactic. The Impressionist work is as dull as could be. And, except for the Van Gogh and one early Gauguin, so is the more modern material. Only the Daumier holdings have any depth. One is left with the impression that Hammer had no eye at all, no feeling for art; that he bought like a bad shot firing into the middle of a flock of birds and, except...
...young independents who organized the epochal Armory Show in 1913 -- Arthur B. Davies, George Bellows, Walt Kuhn and others -- made sure that Ryder was the only American to share its central galleries with the new European masters: Matisse, Gauguin, Cezanne, Van Gogh. "There's only Ryder in American painting," remarked Kuhn. "No artist ever used more of the vital energies of the imagination than Ryder," wrote Marsden Hartley in 1936, "and no one was ever truer to his experience . . . One finds his elements so perfectly true that even the moon herself must recognize them if she had time to look...