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...Modernists. More than any other dealer, Betty Parsons is credited with bringing abstract art to its present status. She opened in 1946 with about 13 artists, including the even then venerable Hans Hofmann and Ad Reinhardt. She gave one-man shows to Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still and Barnett Newman. The public was either indifferent or hostile at first, but Betty Parsons got an unexpected boost her first year from a most unlikely source. "Anyone who wants to spend $100 or $150 for a picture by one of the younger American abstractionists may eventually own a masterpiece," cooed Elsa...
...future in art lay in the U.S. and that the U.S. should start paying attention. And so, in 1945 he signed up Robert Motherwell and William Baziotes, packed them off to Florida to paint. Later, Adolph Gottlieb and Sculptor David Hare joined the list. Kootz refused to take Pollock, and when he began adding such foreign names as Soulages and Mathieu to his gallery (he has long been Picasso's U.S. dealer), some of his more American-minded artists left. But it is a fact that Kootz has all he can handle with the 15 artists he has, including...
This fall, although he has only three seniors among his 33 oarsmen, Love has retained the stern five from last year's first boat: Douglas Robertson, Spencer Burden, Nick Bancroft, Harry Pollock and Mike Dennis. Love also hopes for some "competitive spirit" from the 22 sophomores on the new squad. Coxswains include two sophomores, William Claflin and John Unkovic, and Junior Edward Washburn...
...chichi but not forgotten. The excellent little new museum in Ogunquit, run by Painter Henry Strater, has in past years given similar one-man shows to Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and Andrew Wyeth. As an artist, Brook respects such innovators as his fellow Long Islander, the late Jackson Pollock, the master dripper. The people Brook resents are those faddists who promote abstract art and will enthuse about nothing else. He also has an oldster's dismissing attitude toward those younger artists who, he says, display their contempt for discipline and craftsmanship by deliberately using materials that are doomed...
...varsity heavyweight boat will be the same that just lost to Penn last week, with Alan Hager, bow; Captain John Higginson, two; John Hodges, three; Doug Robertson, four; Spencer Borden, five; Nick Bancroft, six; Harry Pollock, seven; Mike Dennis, stroke; and Bob Goodwin...