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...what happens when a catastrophe overwhelms the cartoonist's ability to poniard a convenient victim on pen point? In Osborn's case, the assassination of John F. Kennedy left him nearly unable to draw. After a while, the cartoonist wrote his dealer, Edith Halpert, "I began to lay down my resentment of the disordered, disoriented, dislocated, DISJOINTED being-not so much Oswald as against the fragmented, illogical destroyers of man's best hopes...
...little girl from Odessa, Edith Gregor Halpert, now 64, has done pretty well for herself. Monet once kissed her on the cheek. The great Paris dealer Ambroise Vollard whispered the secrets of his success in her ear. John...
...years, his extraordinary talent has earned him recognition around his native Los Angeles; now he has been added to the prestigious stable of the Downtown Gallery, which represents such noted older artists as Ben Shahn, Abraham Rattner, Stuart Davis, William Zorach and Georgia O'Keeffe. Dealer Edith Halpert introduces her new artist with a ten-year retrospective, borrowed mostly from the collections of such varied celebrities as Joseph Hirshhorn and Actor Robert Preston...
...Government called three experts: Edith Halpert of the Downtown Gallery, Daniel Johnson of the Willard Gallery and Eugene Thaw of E. V. Thaw & Co. The most generous evaluation that they placed on any of the baroness' paintings was $3,000. The baroness had her own expert: Alexander Kirkland, who runs a gallery in Palm Beach, Fla., where he had been exhibiting the baroness' work (without making a single sale). He placed the value of the triptych paintings at $28,000 each...
Until the end of World War II, Edith Halpert was just about the only woman dealer; now there are many. One striking figure in the invasion is Grace Borgenicht, whose excellent gallery shares a building with Bella Fishko's no-nonsense Forum Gallery and Mrs. Jill Kornblee's offbeat Kornblee Gallery. A sometime painter herself, Grace Borgenicht began going around with a crowd of artists in 1947 that included Jimmy Ernst, Gabor Peterdi and Milton Avery. All three joined up with her when she opened her gallery in 1951. To these she has added such stars as Leonard...