Word: goghs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 9, 1928); Norman Bel Geddes, jack-of-all-design; William Cropper, arch-rebel draughtsman; Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; Editor Frank Crowninshield (Vanity Fair); Director Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. On the walls were hung 98 canvases by the four "old masters" of modern painting: Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh. Many a guest at the opening could well remember the time when these men were not even subjects for polite conversation. There had been unwholesome tales of Gauguin, the stockbroker who deserted wife and child for the allures of Tahiti; Cezanne, the vitriolic rebel of the '90s; Van Gogh...
...great art-conscious cities except New York, there are museums which exhibit contemporary art, a committee of seven art collectors and patrons planned and announced a Museum of Modern Art, to open in October with an exhibition of the sires of today's "modern" art: Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Renoir. The committee has leased a gallery-sized room. For two years they will show the pictures of contemporary European, Mexican and U. S. painters and sculptors, culled from the artists' studios, loaned or given by patrons, loaned or sold by dealers. The neighborhood of the Heckscher Building...
...represented by Corot, Millet, Monet, Manet, and Renoir. The work of these men is well known in Boston, and the Committee has assembled only a few of their paintings to illustrate the continuity of nineteenth century development and to lead up to the less known post-impressionists--Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and others...
...weary of revivals, always a sign of creative weakness. It had had enough of academic rules and formulae long since outworn and no longer able to express the contemporary point of view. That the age had something to say is very powerfully shown in such pictures as Van Gogh's "L' Arlesienne", lent by Mr. Adolph Lewisohn; the "Still Life Study of Fruit," lent by Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster; the "Street in Arles," lent by Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert E. Fuller; or the "Postman"--M. Roulin, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Treat Paine II. There is vitality...
...Modern artists praised: A. L. Barye, Brancusi, Cezanne, Courbet, Degas, Delacroix, Derain, Eakins, Frueh, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Winslow Homer, Manet, Monet, Picasso, Pissarro, Poiret, de Chavannes, Renoir...