Word: pachs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the autumnal equinox safely past, art dealers all over the U. S. were taking down their shutters last week preparing for a new season. As guarantee that the season will not be a dull one Walter Pach ended a voluntary three-year exile in Paris, rented a studio in New York, announced a series of lectures at the Art Students' League...
...Artist Pach has a slanting Slavic forehead, a fiery eye, a mustache like an unravelled hawser. A native New Yorker, he studied painting under Leigh Hunt, William Merritt Chase and the late great Robert Henri. He has exhibited frequently with the Independents in Paris and New York. Not so well known is the fact that he is one of the Pachs of Pach Bros., commercial photographers, a business now carried on by Brother Alfred. Persuasive Elie Faure, French critic, is Walter Pach's best friend. In 1930 he finished a translation of Faure's vast and authoritative History...
...Walter Pach does not lack courage. The complacency of academic painters and museum directors has long been his special target. In 1928 he published his best known book Ananias, or the False Artist, in which he performed the not too difficult feat of denting the reputations of such painters as Edwin Howland Blashfield, Ignacio Zuloaga, Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema. Emanuel Leutze, the creator of Waslington Crossing the Delaware, and the society portraits of John Singer Sargent (like most critics Walter Pach has respect for the Sargent water colors). He tore into the critics who had praised them, the museums, particularly...
...Paris, Walter Pach continued to bombard the critics and the Metropolitan from a distance. The Museum accepted its chastening humbly. Several months ago the Metropolitan bought four Pach canvases and invited Artist Pach to lecture there this winter...
...Pach-Wolin Shop, Inc., Detroit, Mich...