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...fine Venus in Red Cherry, winner of the Logan prize at the Chicago Art Institute, and widely hailed by liberal critics as the finest work ever to win that prize. There were able landscapes by Dale Nichols and Frederick Tellander, but there was also Contemplation by Julius Moessel, a study of a chimpanzee squatting in a rhododendron bush and gazing sentimentally at a butterfly, and there was Sophie by Macena Barton, most disdainful nude in the show, sneering at the gallery goers who gawped at her large white flanks. The Illinois group was completed by a surrealist portrait of Charlie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: National Show | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

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