Word: gogh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which tend to be a persuasive, even if mute, testimony in an age of rampant modernism. In his well-written, though necessarily hurried, and even breathless, survey, Mr. Wickham pauses to inveigh against those modernist critics, who deprecate the masters of yore in order to extol "now a van Gogh, now a Picasso, now a Klee, now a Braque, now a Wadsworth, or now the art of the primitive Negroes or the Seljuka." That kind of criticism is indeed indefensible; one hopes, however, that Mr. Wickham, in his ardor to defend classicism against the enemy, is not leaning over backwards...
...believed that this collection is one of the largest ever to be displayed in this part of the world. Among those artists represented are Seurat, Cezanne, Daumier, Van Gogh, and Aingres. Included in the list of those who have loaned drawings and prints for this exhibition are Mr. McIlhenny, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Mr. W. G. Russell Allen...
Vincent van Gogh, by Julius Meier-Grafe...
VINCENT VAN GOGH-Julius Meier-Graefe-Harcourt, Brace...
...Author, who takes a deep view of artists, thinks van Gogh was less gifted with imagination and talent than the average man. "But if the word artist . . . is a synonym for a man of such moral tenor that he only sets a further goal to his aspiration as his consciousness gains in the deepening perception of Nature and her laws, then Vincent was an artist and the greatest of our time...