Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next August. === John Marin, 75, top-ranking watercolorist, got the sort of tribute that is closest to an artist's heart. At the WAA sale of State Department paintings that offended Congress (TIME, April 14, 1947), a Marin watercolor fetched $10,000 from St. Louis' City Art Museum...
Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, the No. 1 U.S. showroom of contemporary painting, attracts 550,000 paying customers a year. There, pictures and public eye each other uneasily, in an air-conditioned atmosphere of mutual distrust. To arbitrate the silent battle of wills that usually ensues, the museum employs three well-primed guides whom it calls docents (rhymes with no sense). The docents talk and talk-a bit nervously...
They are often interrupted, and the questions are apt to be tough ones. The museum last week had on sale an intriguing pamphlet entitled The Questioning Public, which told something of what the docents are up against...
...handle, not only because the little innocents are used to being led around by the nose anyway, but also because they are not automatically prejudiced, like many of their elders, against unfamiliar sights. The adults are apt to be casual but hostile. They often seem to "feel the museum's educational duty is comparable to a swift tour of Chinatown...
...drawings were accepted-and the museum never had reason for regrets. Topolski's tortuous but versatile line, which had led him from Warsaw to London, eventually made him one of Britain's best war artists and earned him an international reputation as a caricaturist besides. Last week Topolski's latest oils and drawings were on exhibition in London's Leicester Galleries and his caricatures brightened the pages of the current Vogue. The sketches (of Churchill, Daladier, Paul Ramadier and Bertrand Russell, among others) were better than his frightening, jumbled paintings of battles and blitz, courts...