Word: jerdanowitsch
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...incident inspired Mr. Smith to further devilry. Affixing the signature, Pavel Jerdanowitsch, to the canvas, he changed the title from "Yes We Have No Bananas" to "Exaltation," sent the thing to the Exhibition of Independents at the Waldorf Astoria, Manhattan...
Other art journals inquired. In response other masterpieces dripped from the brush of Jerdanowitsch. One showed a jet-black Negress at a washtub, with socks hanging on a clothes line overhead. Displayed at the No-Jury Exhibition (Marshall Field's, 1926) under the title "Aspiration," it was selected out of 480 others for special praise and reproduction by the Art World of Chicago. Wrote Lena McCauley, art critic of the Chicago Evening Post: "It is a delightful jumble of Gauguin, Pop Hart and Negro minstrelsy with...
...seriously have the Modernists begun to take Pavel Jerdanowitsch that Paul Jordan Smith decided that the artist must die. According-ingly he exposed his duality through the columns of the Los Angeles Sunday Times. His chief delight seems to be that France, whence final decrees on the vague modern estheticism emanate, fell headlong Into his trap...
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