Word: lent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manet "Still Life of Fish," lent by Messrs. Durand-Ruel, there is an intensity of visual effect that startles. Here is no philosophizing or sentimentality. The artist sees with eyes more widely open than most of us. In contrast to this the Gauguin Still Life--the Table with Fruit and Flowers, lent by Mr. John T. Spaulding. Here the artist is in a tender mood which is something of a surprise...
...Spaulding has lent some of the very fine things in the exhibition. His pictures--eighteen in all--have a general high level of quality. His "Still Life" by Matisse is a daring picture. The artist is interested only in colour and pattern. It is subtle and defies accepted rules. On analysis it proves, like some of the most interesting music of the period, to be made up of discords of color rather than harmonies...
...Bartlett has lent his well-known Still Life by Cezanne from the Birch-Bartlett Collection in the Art Institute of Chicago. In this, as in the landscape ("Tournant de Route a Auvers") lent by Mr. John Nicholas Brown, Cezanne is shown as the searcher of new paths and rhythms. The modelling is done by means of colour...
...only beginning to command recognition in the United States is Vlaminck. Mr. and Mrs. Q. A. Shaw McKean have lent among other important pictures a characteristic landscape. Vlaminck depends on organization of light and shade, and his handling is always dramatic with a very free but sure technique...
President and Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell have lent one of the interesting Monet's in the exhibition. It is an excellent example of Monet's scientific handling of color and of the artist's ability to express just what one sees at a glance