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Many a modern student of art who wandered into Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week smiled patronizingly at what he saw. On the walls were more than a hundred paintings and drawings by an almost forgotten U.S. landscapist named Thomas Cole. His worst pictures were vast neo-classical allegories done after he had become famous and made the Grand Tour of Europe. His best were meticulous and tender souvenirs of walking trips through the Catskills, the White Mountains and the old Northwest Territory, sometimes embellished with a log cabin, a lone hunter, or a circle of Indian braves. Under...
Andrew Wyeth, 31, is one of the narrowest of young U.S. artists-and one of the most widely respected. He is a portraitist who paints only his friends, and a landscapist who portrays only two localities. His new pictures, on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week, owed nothing to the prevailing distortions of Paris: they were in the straightforward, realistic U.S. tradition of Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper. Bleak as a December dawn, they seemed a startling contrast to the cheerful, crop-headed young man who had painted them...
...Castle St. Angela (with St. Peter's dome in the distance), and 1851, when he painted the solid sunlit Harbor of La Rochelle, Corot's art seldom revealed a trace of the feathery brushwork that later made him so rich a man and so sentimental a landscapist. This less familiar period of Corot's work is represented by 22 canvases. Only the most fanatical Corot connoisseurs will recognize in these masterpieces the painter of so many gloomy women (The Pensive Muse, The Pensive Woman, The Gypsy with the Basque Drum), so many prancing nymphs and paintings like...
...department's corridors (many from the North and Middle West) come to sign up for his classes in drawing, painting, art appreciation. Thirty-five or 40 are admitted to Instructor Woodruff's advanced painting classes, may hope to follow many another Woodruff pupil (like Lithographer Wilmer Jennings, Landscapist Albert Wells) to awards in nationwide art exhibitions or to jobs teaching art in Negro schools...
...Director Rich's show, 174 painters and 26 sculptors of Chicago (and vicinity) sent a work apiece. Most famed was Landscapist Aaron Bohrod (who won the Logan prize in 1937), noted for his glowing watercolors of Chicago back streets. Less well-known, but in the front rank of contemporary U.S. artists is Art Institute Instructor Francis Chapin, who was picked by the Museum of Modern Art for its recent show of little-known U.S. artists (TIME, Feb. 2). Copeland Burg, who paints between jobs as a crime reporter on the Herald-American, won a prize at the Institute show...