Word: modernistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifteen years ago the Independent society was founded by a group of serious younger artists, among them: John Sloan, George Bellows, Robert Henri, Samuel Halpert. Since then New York has sprouted out all over with modernist galleries. The discovery of artistic talent has become a business as highly organized as philanthropy, with museums, trust funds, press agents of its own. Left to exhibit at the Independents' show are a few loyal veterans of its early days, and the hopelessly mediocre, the would-be humorists, the self-advertisers. Some 700 of them paid their $6 each last week to show...
...hurrying to inspect the model and renderings exhibited last week. Two of the three architects of Radio City-Raymond Mathewson Hood and Harvey Wiley Corbett-are also architects of the much publicized 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Fortnight ago at a meeting to protest the exclusion of the modernist pioneer Frank Lloyd Wright from the commission of Fair architects (TIME, March 9) the Fair designs of Architects Hood & Corbett were bitterly attacked as "fake modernism," "eclectic shams," "a pretty cardboard picture of ancient wall masses...
Carpenters, plasterers, electricians and harried directors worked fast last week to complete one of the finest modernist buildings in New York, the New School for Social Research, in time for its opening next week. In the board room ready to be looked at were nine vibrant mural panels which have already attracted national attention and brought fame to the New School as a building, whatever may be its success as an institution. The artist is Thomas Hart Benton. Artist Benton was born in Neosho, Mo., on the edge of the Ozarks, a great-nephew of Andrew Jackson's trusted...
...wife wanted that the children should be proud of me, so I am content," said he last week. "My neighbors tell me the critics are troubled whether I be impressionist, modernist or classicist, but these things I do not understand...
...Annual international exhibition of modern paintings, by artists of 15 countries; at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. Prize award: $2.000 and guarantee of purchase by Pittsburgh's Albert Carl Lehman. Most famed judge: Modernist Henri Matisse...