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...public, which may not know much about art but knows what it likes, had two chances to show its taste last week. One chance was at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery. Mrs. Edith Gregor Halpert, who runs the gallery, knew that famed paintings do not always sell, wondered...
...Halpert called her exhibition What Is Wrong With This Picture?, invited gallery-goers to fill out a questionnaire telling what they thought was wrong with each one. No two gallery-goers agreed. Of the Kuniyoshi one amateur critic wrote: "Feeling of left thigh seems vulgar"; another: "I do not like the position of the figure, nor the color of the flesh...
...skylit little courtyard gallery on West 13th Street, Manhattan, gathered last week more artistic large fry than you could shake a palette-knife at. Her greying hair done high and sculptural, Hostess Edith Gregor Halpert of the Downtown Gallery swept busily from guest to guest: gentle Alfred Barr Jr., director of the Museum of Modern Art; frosty-headed "Grouch" Goodyear, the museum's president; Mrs. Juliana Force, redoubtable director of the Whitney Museum; sunny Holger Cahill, director of the Federal Art Project; big, Indian-looking Artist Eugene Speicher, burly, blue-eyed Reginald Marsh, bright-eyed, skimpy-chinned Peggy Bacon...
Collected last spring by enterprising Edith Gregor Halpert of Manhattan's Downtown Gallery, the Quest show was called "Children in American Folk Art, 1725-1865." Patrons included Mr. & Mrs. Robert Maynard Hutchins and other good Chicagoans. In one room were portraits of children by journeymen painters of the early 19th Century. In another were 45 paintings done by children between 1800 and 1861. Quest rooms on the second floor contained pictures by contemporary artists of the Chicago Public Schools. Chicago ladies found this combination of historical, local, esthetic and sentimental interests so irresistible that they bought paintings right & left...
Several years ago her purchasing became too widespread for her to do all by herself. To her assistance as a special agent under special circumstances went handsome, grey-haired Edith Halpert, widow of Painter Samuel Halpert, onetime efficiency expert for deflated S. W. Straus & Co., and for the past ten years director of the Downtown Gallery...