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...first time, an inclusive exhibition of those paintings was shown last week in Washington's National Gallery of Art. "American Battle Paintings 1776-1918" (116 pictures) was organized by Critic Lincoln Kirstein and the National Gallery's Mrs. Margaret Garrett, jointly sponsored by the National Gallery and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, where it will be shown next fall...
...troupe. Distinguished losers at ballet in recent decades have included the Aga Khan and Sir Basil Zaharoff (original Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo), Cincinnati's yeast king, Julius Fleischmann (Universal Art, Inc.), Manhattan's rug widow, Lucia Chase (Ballet Theatre), Boston's department-store prince, Lincoln Kirstein (American Ballet). Last week another prospective loser cheerfully bet his chips: Chilean-born George de Cuevas, onetime Marqués de Piedrablanca de Guana, who married the late John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter, Margaret Strong...
...from the Scaffold. The Siqueiros Art for Victory movement got under way early last year in Chile, where Muralist Siqueiros fled while awaiting his trial. There he painted Death for the Invader, a mural regarded by the Modern Museum's Lincoln Kirstein as "the most important pictoric work since the Cubist Revolution of 1911." But peering down from his scaffold, Siqueiros observed that Latin American artists were doing nothing for the war, that they had lost touch with the masses, that Latin American governments had not given their artists a chance to develop. So he tore off a manifesto...
...Gathered by Director Alfred H. Barr, Jr.; also by Lincoln Kirstein, the museum's consultant on Latin American art, who wrote the above comment on Figari. He is now in the Engineers Replacement Training Center, Fort Belvoir...
...Sidney Cohen, assistant in Medicine and Bacteriology at the Medical School, has won the Louis E. Kirstein Fellowship at the Harvard Medical School, the University announced yesterday...