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...Letter Man Morris Kantor is one of the select group of artists whose pictures hang in all three big Manhattan museums: the conservative Metropolitan, the middle-minded Whitney, and the freewheeling, streamlined Museum of Modern Art. These diverse honors make Kantor a three-letter man in U.S. painting, but not necessarily an All-American; they are as much a tribute to the diversity as to the quality...
Excepting Picasso, who is the end-all of most switches and surprises in modern art, few can touch Kantor for variety. A mild, quiet little man whose long face is made even longer by his swooping nose and luxuriantly sad mustache, Kantor changes his style with his subjects. Last week at a Manhattan gallery he seemed to be trying two at once. Half the paintings on show were piney, briny souvenirs of Kantor's summers at Monhegan, Me. They looked a little as though they had been pasted together with pine needles and pitch. The other half...
...contingent represented an unknown frontier for French critics, and they explored it warily. The 84 uniformly small canvases (by such local big shots as Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Sheeler and Morris Kantor) had been recently acquired by the State Department. It looked as though the State Department had kept within its budget by accepting second-best samples which might impress Paris by the originality, but not the quality, of U.S. taste...
With that intuitive flash which frequently strikes cinemagnates, Goldwyn snatched up the phone, called Palm Beach and asked Novelist MacKinlay Kantor to dash off a story treatment. Kantor went right to work, but before he was through, his "treatment" had blossomed into a 268-page novel in free verse (Glory for Me, a Literary Guild dividend selection). Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, whose knack for smooth, talkable prose has won him three Pulitzer Prizes and a place in the history books as the writer of Franklin Roosevelt's war speeches, was hired to do the script. The story...
...Morris Kantor, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Waldo Peirce, Raphael Soyer, Max Weber, William Zorach. There was even Walkowitz as Cyclops (by Adolph Gottlieb), a large green-and-ocher canvas in which Walkowitz looked like a giant grasshopper brooding over the canals of Mars. And there was Walkowitz (by Frank Kleinholz), entering the gates of heaven, and meeting St. Peter, who had also taken up painting and was doing an angel...