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...Conservative Bernard Karfiol argued that "a painting should be seen through the innate feeling eye rather than the literary scientific mind . . . For me, Nature in all its elements provides the essentials...
...Whitney Museum (now under the wing of the arch-conservative Metropolitan) honored the native sons who had brought the principles of Paris back to Manhattan, and had made them stick. In an exhibition called "Pioneers of Modern Art in America," it showed the 1908-22 works of Karfiol, Weber, Demuth, Sheeler, Marin, Hartley, and-surprisingly enough-Thomas Hart Benton...
...together seven highly rated paintings by well-known American painters (Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Peter Blume, Bernard Karfiol, Julian Levi, Katherine Schmidt, Charles Sheeler, Niles Spencer) that had never found a buyer...
...Exhibited at the Downtown Gallery was Making Music by Bernard Karfiol: two boys playing an accordion and a guitar in the luminous corner of an old, low, New England room with Colonial Primitive portraits on the wall behind them. Notable was the skill with which the painter made his own music of warm colors, cool light, suspended pattern...
...mood. By comparison People (see cut), by U.S. Artist Arnold Blanch, winner of third prize ($500), seemed a stiff bit of social consciousness greatly damaged by the fumbling inclusion of Washington, D.C. In the U.S. section of 102 paintings, critics found as great or greater pleasure in Bernard Karfiol's big, soft Summer; John Marin's Sea with-Red Sky, a small canvas with a whipped cream lather of white paint which at 60 feet carried a spacious sense of foaming ocean...