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Leader of the calligraphists (a style that includes U.S. Painter Mark Tobey's famed "white writing" and the late Jackson Pollock's lassolike drip whirls) is German-born, French-naturalized Hans Hartung. Now considered a Frenchman by the French, who last November bought out his first one-man show in nine years at prices ranging from $4,000 to $6,000, and a German by the Germans, who are honoring his works with a ten-month-long museum tour, Hartung, at 52, is being hailed by critics as "one of the prophets of modern art" (in Paris...
What made Ferren's conversion significant is that he is one of the oldest abstractionists going, with an established prewar-Paris reputation. In the '30s he rated one-man shows, shared gallery space in group shows with such now famous moderns as Alberto Giacometti, Arp, Hans Hartung and Kandinsky. Gertrude Stein, who had taken a shine to the strapping, red-haired painter from Pendleton, Ore., announced in Everybody's Autobiography: "He is the only American painter foreign painters in Paris consider as a painter and whose painting interests them. He is young yet and might only perhaps...
...York (Hartung) 6, Chicago...
...York (Hartung) 10, Chicago...
Seitz, Daniel Ward of 130 East 67th Street, New York, N. Y.; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H. White, James Floyd of 213 Church Street, Rutland, Vt.; Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Wolvertown, Robert George of 2856 North Hartung Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis.; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter...