Word: knoedlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Edmond L. Knoedler. 70. retired Manhattan art dealer (prints); following an operation last March; in Hyeres, Prance...
Among the oldest, most conservative of Manhattan art marts is the Knoedler Galleries. Last week its suave brown velvet walls burgeoned with weird birds, impossible flowers, strange writhing figures wrought from paint so thick that it seemed as much sculpture as painting. Art critics, society reporters and psychiatrists hurried over to see them for three reasons: Brilliant color and an unquestioned sense of design make them worthy of serious attention as works of art. They were painted by the third wife of wealthy Irving Ter Bush. Mrs. Bush insists that they are "automatic paintings" produced under occult control...
Died. Roland F. Knoedler, 76, retired art dealer; of lung congestion; in Paris. Born in New York, he made Knoedler & Co., his father's firm, one of the three most important (with Duveen Bros, and Durand-Ruel) in the U. S. He helped build the art collections of Andrew William Mellon, the late Peter A. B. Widener, William Kissam Vanderbilt, the late George Fisher Baker, Potter Palmer...
...leisure of which U. S. architects have had so much lately was put to good use last week. In Manhattan, for the benefit of unemployed draughtsmen, a first Architects Hobby Show was held in Knoedler's Gallery, which usually devotes its chaste walls to the very expensive output of the French Impressionists. It cost $1 to see what famed architects do in their spare time...
...Semitic paper Psst. He was little remembered for the vicious propaganda pictures he drew during the Franco-German and World Wars. In New York last week the Caz-Delbo Galleries had an important showing of his paintings and water colors under the auspices of the French Government. At the Knoedler Galleries was a special exhibition of Forain's etchings and lithographs...