Word: rattner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school of contemporary art; for the painters whose works are shown, it means acceptance into the top ranks of U.S. artists. This week the Corcoran opened its 23rd biennial show-a lavish spread of 226 paintings-and announced the four prizewinners. The $2,000 First Prize went to Abraham Rattner's glowing Composition with Three Figures (opposite). A pleasantly romantic still life by Hobson Pittman took second money, Francis Chapin sailed in third with Regatta at Edgartown (opposite), and William Congdon came fourth with a chic peek at Venice, done in glimmering impasto...
...Artist Rattner, 57, was a camouflage engineer in World War I, returned to Paris after the armistice for 20 years of advance-guard painting. He came home in 1940, now teaches at the University of Illinois. His prizewinning picture looks as if it might have been intended to represent the Crucifixion, camouflaged, or seen through stained glass darkly. But Rattner's explanations are never that simple. Says he: "It is rather an idea related to the need to give men hope and encouragement, and involving the conflicting things that we are confronted with today in our hearts and souls...
...Chicago's Francis Chapin is a cheerful conservative with his feet firmly planted in the dazzle of impressionism. "I chose the regatta as a subject," he says, "because it was just plain old pictorial." His prizewinning result, as light and easy as Rattner's is dark and difficult, proves that there is nothing wrong with such a modest ambition. Taken together, the two paintings speak well for the scope and vitality...
...Chicago, the Renaissance Society took over a hall at the University of Chicago, filled it with 439 works by such recognized artists as Rainey Bennett, Abraham Rattner and Milton Avery-everything from bold abstract posters to realistic etchings, watercolor landscapes, and oil paintings. Within the week, 1,000 students, teachers and young married couples, some from as far as 50 miles away, had come to browse around, gone home with 61 first-rate works of art tucked under their arms. Chicago's fedora prices: from $1.50 for a small drawing to $50 for a large work by Yves Tanguy...
Cooke, who has studied under the Parisian modern, Abe Rattner, is the most advanced of the group. Although his paintings have a fiery tone, they communicate powerful and lucid feelings. He shows a remarkable awareness of color relationships and exhibits a confident, though hasty, use of the brush. His "Three Soldiers" is immediately desperate and terrifying. The angular faces, large eyes, and crooked hands enforce the dramatic effect. Selecting similar reds and yellows, Cooke has painted a portrait of Christ which is both warm and sympathetic. A self-portrait in blue and a landscape are less successful, however, because...