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...their favorite contemporary U.S. paintings to an exhibition entitled "Museums' Choice." Last week the results were on view. Artists best liked by the museum directors: the late great Marsden Hartley, Maine modern whose rough-cut, bright-colored canvases were scorned by museums 20 years ago; Japanese-American Yasuo Kuniyoshi, whose slick, complex workmanship is especially admired by fellow artists...
...honey, saloon-style nude entitled Reverie (see cut). Miller's explanation for his choice of subject: "I have an appetite for form." Miller sates his appetite with a practiced brush, has taught many topflight U.S. artists to do likewise. Three other prizewinners in the show, Edward Hopper, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Edward Laning, once studied under him. So did Juryman Reginald Marsh...
This year's coveted first prize in the Carnegie Institute's annual painting exhibition went to Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 51-year-old Japanese-born Manhattanite, for his delicate, deft, still-life fantasy. Room no. Last week the votes of the plain gallery-goers were finally added up, revealing as the people's choice a billowing farmscape with a threatening sky. Grey and Gold, by John Rogers Cox, 28-year-old former director of the Swope Gallery at Terre Haute...
...Kuniyoshi, for pleasing the experts: $1,000. To Cox, for pleasing the public...
Morris Kantor, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Waldo Peirce, Raphael Soyer, Max Weber, William Zorach. There was even Walkowitz as Cyclops (by Adolph Gottlieb), a large green-and-ocher canvas in which Walkowitz looked like a giant grasshopper brooding over the canals of Mars. And there was Walkowitz (by Frank Kleinholz), entering the gates of heaven, and meeting St. Peter, who had also taken up painting and was doing an angel...