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...liberal priming with Rockefeller funds, its loan exhibitions have been of more & more artistic significance. Last week perspiring truckmen trundled through its ornate marble doors the makings of possibly the most important show the institution has ever held-45 paintings and 46 drawings of the late great Vincent van Gogh. From U. S. museums and private collections Director Barr hopes to borrow almost as many more to round out his No. 1 U. S. exhibit of van Gogh's work next month...
...weeks this summer Director Barr toured The Netherlands, arranging to borrow the pictures he needed from Dutchman van Gogh's nephew, now a prosperous Amsterdam engineer, and from the Kröller-Müller Foundation at Wassenaar, owner of the most important van Gogh collection in the world. Though Nephew van Gogh was willing to lend his pictures, the Foundation first went through a spasm of nervous hesitation...
...ller (copper, steamboats) is one of the world's most eminent collectors of modern paintings. Really assembled by Mevrouw Müller, the Kröller-Müller collection of nearly 1,000 pictures contains 98 of some 700 paintings produced by Vincent van Gogh in his lifetime. They have announced that on their death their collection and their huge estate near The Hague, where it is housed, will be turned over to the public, that a large museum will be built on the grounds. Created was a Foundation, with a Dutch Cabinet minister on the board, which...
...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...