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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chicago's Art Institute, the third most important museum in the U.S. (after Manhattan's Metropolitan and Washington's National Gallery), has a new director: owlish John Maxon, 42, who made his reputation for lively exhibitions and museum-community cooperation as director of the comparatively tiny museum of the Rhode Island School of Design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Each-Otherness | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

Since the resignation of Daniel Catton Rich last year, the Chicago Institute has been run by Acting Director Allan McNab, with a powerful assist from strong-minded Katherine Kuh, curator of paintings and sculpture. McNab will stay on as director of administration (staff: 405), thus freeing Maxon for matters of art. A bachelor, Maxon was born in Salt Lake City, trained at Manhattan's Cooper Union Art School and the University of Michigan, took his doctorate at Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Each-Otherness | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...Maxon's creed: "'Museum' is no synonym for 'graveyard,' 'antique shop' or 'warehouse.' Personally, I believe that the museum must show its treasures with awareness of salesmanship and showmanship which is evident in a first-rate shop window or a Broadway show." Last week the new boss briskly proposed some changes for Chicago: "I hope some time to restore chronological sequence in the displays, and I should like to re-establish the American wing. Also I want to have two galleries devoted to Chicago art. We have an obligation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Each-Otherness | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...That all depends," says Katherine Kuh, "on how it is done." Muses Maxon: "In some areas of American life there is a thing called togetherness, but in museums we have each-otherness, and that is even harder to bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Each-Otherness | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...first time anyone had legally questioned a traditional Ad Alley practice; new agencies are constantly being formed by account executives who walk out of their old agencies with their pet accounts in their pockets. During the 20-day trial, Jones himself cheerfully testified that when he left Maxon, Inc. in 1942 to form his own agency, he took the Bab-O and Tetley accounts along with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Jones Boys | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

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