Word: gruskin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alan D. Gruskin, director of Manhattan's Midtown Galleries, was in a complaining mood: the abstractions that young painters are turning out these days are just "too academic-a formula too easy for the young painter to learn without ever having learned the fundamentals." Last week Gruskin put on a show that was about as fundamental as he could imagine. Its subject: the nude...
...Gruskin's artists obviously appreciate the human figure, and they seem to prefer it uncaged by cubes and triangles, crisscrosses and cones. Their nudes crouched or sat or slept, looking just as they did in life. And some of them had the refreshing quality of being a bit oldfashioned. Among them: Oronzio Maldarelli's statue of a young girl, seated cross-legged on her pedestal like some dreaming nymph; Doris Rosenthal's Gauguin-like study of a tropic beauty drowsing in a chair; Waldo Peirce's Renoirish painting of a mother and child happily basking...
...Director Gruskin had to admit that he was "pleasantly surprised" by the number of nudes his artists had done, even though he knew that their work would be a bit hard to market. "Nudes," says he, "have never sold too well. A lot of museums are leary of them because their trustees are conservative businessmen. Even bars have been giving them up for mirrors. One nude we displayed in a bar had to be taken down because the drinkers objected." Abstractions don't raise the same problem...