Word: pach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter Pach set out to be a painter. He presently found that he and everyone else had more fun when he criticized other people's paintings (Ananias or the False Artist, The Masters of Modern Art, An Hour of Art). A little, well-liked man muffling a torrent of talk in a brown torrent of mustache, he has never flinched, after his fiercest attacks on other men's works of art, from putting his own on view. Last week he did it again, at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries, his first exhibition since...
...colleagues, the critics, looked doubtfully at Walter Pach's show. The pictures were dull. There was a big fresco that Pach's Class of 1903 at the College of the City of New York had agreed to give their alma mater. In it three lumpish women illustrating the College's motto, Respice, Adspice and Prospice, symbolically wave their arms about at the past, present and future. Best of the other works were the water colors and several small portrait frescoes, notably one of his wife, Magda, all done with admirable intelligence and solid, conventional technique. There were...
Said the New York Times's Edward Alden Jewell: "The mural is to a very large extent drearily static . . . intensified by the washed-out color, dryly and scratchily applied. ... As a critic and man of letters Walter Pach rises brilliantly, clear of the defects that mar his work as an artist...
...York World Telegram-said: "Walter Pach is a gentle erudite man with an enviable and long-standing reputation as lecturer and author (we hesitate to say artist, though he has been painting for many years...
Painters are traditionally articulate; Walter Pach more so than most. His father, founder of Pach Bros., commercial photographers, was official photographer to the Metropolitan Museum of Art since its founding. The child crawled on the Museum's floors before he could walk, squinting observantly up at the walls. His nickname was first "Rabbits," because he raised them, then "Piney," because his hair bristled. In 1907 he went to Paris, saw a Matisse painting, "felt a blow between the eyes." He began to fight the battle of modern art, helped organize the famed Armory Show...