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...leads gently from the relative realism of Monet and the Impressionists, through the simplifications of Cezanne. Gauguin, and the Post Impressionists, to the complete abstractions of Cubism and Expressionism. Apparent eccentricity becomes logical and inevitable. Extreme individualism is conveniently pigeon-holed into consistent developments...
...paintings will show, is a history of the liberation of the artist. The steps by which the Impressionists and Post Impressionists established this freedom, and its particular adaptation by the Cubists, the Expressionists and the Post War Group are outlined in the exhibition. Monet, Seurat, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Degas, Matisse, Picasso, Marc, Villon, Leger, Cocteau, Lurcat, Hugo are a few of the artists shown. A statement of the chief interest and contribution of each will be printed under the paintings...
...five rooms and hallway that constitute the Museum of Modern Art in the Heckscher Building, Manhattan, last week hung the best collection of modern painting yet seen there-woodcuts and paintings by Gauguin, several vivid Cezannes, a Seurat seascape, a colorful Degas, splendid examples of Frenchmen Monet, Renoir, Redon, Daumier, Picasso, Matisse, Guys and of U. S. Artists Davies, Charles and Maurice Prendergast, Dougherty, Kuhn. More newsworthy than the exhibition's quality, however, was the fact that these paintings were now the Museum's property. Before the public was invited to look, a memorial service was held...
Under Art for March 23, you give out the impression that Henry Adams and John La Farge spent a hectic interval on Tahiti dodging Gloomy Paul Gauguin when as a matter of fact, to Paul they were Western trash and the last creatures in the world with whom he would traffic . . . but perhaps it is the lavish economy of your style that creates these false impressions...
...French Legion of Honor), a substance that gave the effect of light through the bottom of a soap dish. His best friend was Henry ("The Education of") Adams. With him he made a voyage to Tahiti, lived on the island at the same time as that morose genius Paul Gauguin, whom the two U. S. elegants successfully avoided...