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...Wild, Hopper, Emerson Speak...
Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government; Bruce C. Hopper, associate professor of Government; and Rupert Emerson, associate professor of Government, will be the featured speakers at the Dunster Forum...
...comparative judgment, it is possible that a person could be fooled into believing that Homer, the old American stand-by, was equal to his popular reputation. There are a few works by other painters in this collection of watercolors, however, and it is upon the shoulders of Marin and Hopper, contemporary artists, that the burden rests of showing those who wish to see, that Winslow Homer is a highly over-rated painter...
...paintings by Hopper are matchless in their clean and spacious solidity. "Storage Plant" embodies precision without loss of emotional content. The use of clear color together with his distinctive way of turning a relatively unimportant subject into an impressive, work of art; gives a natural force to Hopper's paintings. His clear, cloudless skies, fresh grass, and firm buildings, make a person momentarily forget that he is inside a museum...
This exhibit, necessarily incomplete, is more than adequate, however. In it we can follow sketchily the general development of watercolor painting in our country, see work by Marin and Hopper, perhaps the two most outstanding contemporary artists in America, and also see that true art involves something more than the skillful manipulation of a brush. The collection serves as a fitting close to an unusually fertile season for the museum which has presented during the past year exhibits of etchings, watercolors, and oils taken from almost every important period in the history of art. it is to be regretted that...