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...recruitment drive attracted 150 applications, 20 per cent more than were expected, according to Robert S. Kuhn '46, Deputy Director of the African Regional Office and one of the six Corps officials at Harvard this week. He said that there was a "surprisingly high number of applications" from the Law School...
...Kuhn said that the aim of the campaign had been mainly to "answer questions and clear up misconceptions...
...show was that for all this ridicule, the introduction of the French modern masters into the U.S. was a huge success. Davies helped build the impressionist collection of Lizzie P. Bliss; Glackens sold Albert C. Barnes on the virtues of the Armory's Cézannes; Kuhn got John Quinn to invest in modern art. Collectors Walter Arensberg and Stephen C. Clark both bought from the show. The Metropolitan Museum of Art became the first U.S. museum to buy a Cézanne; a San Francisco dealer snapped up Duchamp's Nude sight unseen. As a matter...
...works sold, the French outnumbered the American 4 to 1. When Walt Kuhn submitted the sales report to members of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, which had started the whole thing, the grand disillusionment set in. One after another the American artists read it, and one after another they resigned. As Painter Jerome Myers sadly explained: "Our land of opportunity I was thrown wide open to foreign art, unirestricted and triumphant; more than ever ! before, our great country had become a colony; more than ever before, we had become provincials...
...hopes of becoming the dominating force in U.S. art, those who called the U.S. provincial were obviously passing judgment too soon. From the older generation of Americans in the show, Albert Ryder's paintings live on to haunt posterity. Of those who were in their middle years, Walt Kuhn went on to do first-rate work, John Marin is seen to be one of the most imaginative artists of his time, and even Maurice Prendergast has been reassessed as a far more daring painter than his antimacassar subject matter made him seem. Freshman Stuart Davis, then...