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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WILLIAM CYRUS RICE Grand Rapids, Mich...
Attended by his Grand Chamberlain and a suite of 200 nobles. His Majesty the Emperor Hirohito, bespectacled Son of Heaven, presided augustly last week at the official tabulation of 34,769 poems entered by Japanese throughout the world in the Imperial New Year's Poetry Competition. The set theme for contestants this year was: Rocks at the Ocean's Fringe. Last week, before the tabulation of poems could begin, a choir intoned five times the Sub lime Emperor's own treatment of the theme, lines which, needless to say, will not be judged. With his royal brush...
Frank Weston Benson of Salem, Mass. He was a painter for 30 years before he began etching, and won enough medals to satisfy a grand vizier. He was one of "The Ten Americans" who made artistic history a decade or more ago; his paintings as well as his prints are in many museums. His etchings indicate his favorite pastime ?hunting and sketching wildfowl in lonely marshes. They bring higher prices than those of any living U. S. artist. A recent exhibition catalog, stating the prices of other etchers' works, tactfully omitted mention of Benson's prices, but the initial...
...modernists rejoiced and made merry last week. With the opening of a great exhibition at the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan, they had captured one of the strongest citadels of conservatism. Never before had a modernist show been permitted there, and now the works of 33 modernists were on view. They celebrated artistically, mentally, physically, at the private view the day before opening. They danced to the music of mandolins and guitars in the dignified Grand Central premises. They drank tea and other liquids. They smoked cigarets in modernist defiance of signs that read "No Smoking." Some of them ranged themselves...
...Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association, proprietors of the big showrooms above Grand Central station, has hitherto specialized in the work of academicians like George de Forest Brush, Herbert Adams, Edwin Howland Blashfield. This year they invited the Downtown Gallery, protagonist of modernism, to arrange a show. The exhibits, totalling 132 paintings, water colors, drawings, prints, sculptures, filled seven of the eleven galleries, will remain until the middle of February. The exhibitors...