Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring opening of the government-sponsored National Salon of Plastic Arts, he noted that a new museum devoted to surrealism and abstract painting had recently been opened in the capital. No Peronista, he let it be known, would have any truck with such decadent trash...
...capsule, Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week gave gallerygoers a history of 20th Century U.S. art. With 176 paintings and sculptures by Whitney-nurtured artists, it was staging a memorial exhibit for Juliana Force, until her death last year the museum's hardworking, fast-talking director...
...Closed Shop. But in 1929, when the team of Whitney & Force tried to close up shop and retire, they found to their chagrin that modern U.S. art was still not well enough established for Manhattan's crusty Metropolitan Museum to accept Mrs. Whitney's collection, even as a gift. Ruffled and angry, they decided to go into the museum business themselves with Mrs. Force as boss...
When the Whitney opened its salmon-pink quarters on West Eighth Street in 1931, Mrs. Force continued to focus her attention on present-day U.S. artists, letting the older established museums fill in the historical background. Mrs. Whitney paid all the bills, left $2,500,000 to keep the museum going after her death in 1942. The Whitney never offered prizes, instead spent from $10,000 to $30,000 a year buying the pictures it liked. Up until her last illness, Juliana Force moved poker-backed and sharp-eyed among American artists, watching for someone who might make another Whitney...
...pictures hanging in the museum's pleasant galleries last week were proof that Mrs. Force's taste was catholic, usually sound. From George Luks's powerfully naturalistic study, The Wrestlers, dated 1905, to the stylized modernist canvases of Abraham Rattner and the obscure experiments of Baziotes and Gottlieb (see below), every excursion and detour of U.S. art was represented...