Word: pach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasional excellence of the exhibition. Patterning after the Paris Salon des Independants in its opposition to tight orthodoxies, the Society of Independent Artists provides a more exciting display than conservative bodies like the National Academy. Such reputable painters as John Taylor Arms, Pop Hart, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, Walter Pach. John Sloan (president of the Society) and Claggett Wilson were represented. Among other memorable contributions were Olive Rush's delicate water colors, tonal hints of New Mexican scene and character. Rudolph Tandler showed a briskly drawn and water-colored lighthouse. Attuned to the Moon by Madeline S. Pereny...
...Copyist Alceo annoys the Metropolitan much less than Manhattan Critic Walter Pach, who recently published a book called Ananias (Harper's). Biblical Ananias lied to God. Artistic Ananias deceives himself and the public, lies to Apollo. He paints handsome, superficial canvases for popular and social success. U. S. museums, states Critic Pach, are full of them, particularly the Metropolitan.* What rather should happen is the cultivation of public taste by impact with fresh, live modes of expression...
Whether or not Critic Pach's salvos affected Metropolitan dictators, they announced a February auction of 200 paintings of an evidently admitted stupidity...
...Pach in his recent book states, "Glancing through the rotogravure supplement of the paper and enjoying the photographs of swimmers, statesmen and stage-dancers, one's eye was caught by the big flag, and one idly read the caption to see whether this was a belated poster from some Y. M. C. A. drive during the recent war, or an invitation to prepare for the next one, in Nicaragua or a place like that, or whether it was not just the advertisement of a firm such as supplies uniforms for military schools and training camps--a masculine pendant...
Continuing in the same vein. Pach writes..."the blatant thing at Harvard was intended as a tribute to the boys whose generous impulse made them rush from their college to join the students from other lands on the battlefields...Well., the job had to be done anyhow, just as, 15 or 20 years before, Lady War wick's portrait had to be got through with. You can always count on a line of soldiers to stir people; a good fierce American eagle would be a useful 'property', as the theatre chape call it, and 'Our Old Flag,' from centre-stage...