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Arthur Lehman fellowships to: Sidney S. Alexander 1G, Milton Crane, Columbia University. Robert Galambos 1G, John S. Harding, University of Minnesota. George W. Mackey, Rice Institute. Forris Jewett Moore scholarship Frederick C. Novello '38. Elkan Naumberg fellowship, Arnold Elston 1G. Robert Treat Paine fellowship, Robert E. Olson, Columbia University. Francis Parkman fellowship, Peter Viereck '37, Oxford University, England. James Mills Pierce scholarship and University fellowship, Edwin N. Nilson 1G. Rantoul scholarship, Donald W. Fiske 1G. James Rogers Rich scholarship, George C. Bright, Brown University. Henry Bromfield Rogers memorial fellowship and University fellowship, Arthur K. Van W. Ogden...
About the quality of the work on hand, Chicagoans were of two minds. One mind belonged to the Chicago Daily Tribune's conservative critic, Eleanor Jewett, who reported somewhat tartly that it was "practically a complete triumph for the modernists" and "filled with bad painting." "Modernism" being a verbal shinny-can long since whanged out of all shape or precision, art-lovers went to see for themselves. Most of them concluded that the Institute's 17th, representing many of the top-flight artists of 14 nations, was indeed contemporary but well up to its lively standard...
...brown wash modeled into a seated nude figure, the paper was scratched with a razor to bring out highlights and sheen of flesh. The second Blair award of $400 went to Millard Sheets, a handsome, 30-year-old Californian, for Mystic Night (see cut), which seemed "modernist" to Miss Jewett but just kind of nice to other critics...
These artists were chosen by a jury composed of Art Writer Thomas Craven, Princeton's Professor Frank Jewett Mather Jr., Chicago Art Institute's Director Robert B. Harshe. Editor Frederic A. Whiting Jr. of the Magazine of Art and TIME Inc.'s President Henry R. Luce. Without waiting on ceremony, the jury had previously awarded a "fellowship" to Artist Grant Wood for a set of illustrations to Main Street. Artist Wood's work, like that of Missourian Benton, Kansan Curry and New Yorkers Marsh & Poor, is for the Limited Editions Club members only...
...sewed 1,300-odd costumes which were sent to Virginia to be dyed by students in a mountain mission school. From missionary outposts of the Church, some 40 Episcopal converts and workers went to Philadelphia to appear in the pageant. A professional director of civic and patriotic shows, Percy Jewett Burrell of Boston, wrote the Drama of Missions...