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...Metropolitan last week, critics and gallery-goers had a chance to inspect The Hunt together with the 16 other contemporary U. S. paintings acquired this year with the Hearn funds. Already on view were such old hands as Edward Hopper, Bernard Karfiol, Max Weber, Louis Eilshemius, Augustus Vincent Tack. For the first time appeared equally well-known George Biddle, William Glackens, vigorous, self-taught Joe Jones of Missouri, Henry Botkin, Robert Brackman, Alexander James, Sidney Laufman, Henry E. Mattson, Paul Sample, Louis Bouche. Showgoers lifted most surprised eyebrows when they beheld Doris Lee's Catastrophe, which showed a Zeppelin...
Last May excitable President Bernard Karfiol of the Painters, Sculptors & Gravers proposed that his society boycott all museums that would not pay a monthly rental of 1% of the appraised valuation of the pictures exhibited. Such payments would probably bring the average exhibiting artist more than $100 a year, just about enough to meet repair expenses...
...boycott came fortnight ago with the opening of the Worcester Art Museum's second biennial show of U. S. paintings. Because Director Francis Henry Taylor could not and would not pay rentals, the following well-known U. S. artists refused to submit pictures: Alexander Brook, Bernard Karfiol, Ernest Fiene, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Morris Kantor, Reginald Marsh, Katherine Schmidt, Arnold Blanch, Paul Cadmus, Niles Spencer, Henry Schnakenberg. Director Taylor freely admitted that the boycott badly handicapped his exhibition...
...Moore, a familiar headliner of the Whitney Museum show of four months ago (TIME, Dec. 10). Other widely known pictures: Guy Pène du Bois' Sunburned Nude; William J. Glackens' Soda Fountain (TIME, March 11); John Steuart Curry's Line Storm (TIME, Dec. 24); Bernard Karfiol's Seated Nude. More of a novelty was a Renoiresque Girl at the Piano by Frederick Frieseke which won the $1,500 Clark second prize...
...Gallery, this week opened her sixth annual "$100 show." Mrs. Halpert's previous $100 shows suffered from studio remnants. But no critics could spot unwanted leftovers in this week's exhibit. For sale at $100 each were pictures by such U. S. artists as Peggy Bacon, Bernard Karfiol, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ernest Fiene, Marguerite Zorach, Charles Sheeler, Niles Spencer and many another. Most of the pictures had been marked down from $300 or more...