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First prize at Chicago ($750) went to New York's Russian-born, patriarchal Max Weber, who is regarded with almost religious veneration by his fellow painters. He was doing somber Cézanne-like landscapes and gloomy Picassoish nudes and rabbis before most U.S. modern artists had abstracted their first cube. Painter Weber's prize-winning entry, a ruggedly outlined, moody landscape called Winter Twilight, showed a pair of gaunt tree trunks grimly clutching an overcast sky before a background of cliffs and buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Chicago v. Pittsburgh | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

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