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...jury was composed of Corcoran Director Hermann Warner Williams Jr. and three painters: abstractionist Abraham Rattner, landscape and genre painter Paul Sample, and Pepsi-Cola Prizewinner Mitchell Jamieson (TIME, Oct. 4). Together they had spent a day in Manhattan and another in Washington, rejected close to 1,000 pictures (including some by top-notch artists) at each stop. What, Miss Genauer wanted to know, had been their basis of judgment...
...things on earth,'women are the most beautiful, and this is an honest picture of an attractive woman." One young woman seemed to have got the Kunastrokian point the show was intended to make. She liked the paintings of the 19305 (which included works of ultra-Modernists Abraham Rattner and Karl Knaths)-just "because is because is because...
Miller's own watercolors are full of gabled doors, heavenly bodies (he believes in astrology), female sex symbols, eyes("I'm not perverse, but the idea of looking through a keyhole . . . fascinates me"), and echoes of Paul Klee and Abraham Rattner...
...carries an extensive stock of originals and prints and does considerable framing work. Their exhibition this month is the series of paintings of the "Temptation of Saint Anthony," which Mayor Curley recently condemned as offensive to religious persons. The show contains some interesting interpretations by such painters as Abraham Rattner, Salvador Dali, Ivan Albright, and Dorothea Tanning; but only Max Ernst's prize-winning canvas captures the terror brought to the theme by the Gothic Masters...
...seemed as though the prize jury (a museum director, a critic, an artist) liked a little of everything. The prizewinners included Abraham Rattner's Picassoesque, blazing red and yellow Place of Darkness; Gregorio Prestopino's rock-solid study of a train stalled in a flood; Sydney Laufman's impressionistic Road in the Woods, which looked as though it had been daubed on with dirty cotton; Gladys Rockmore Davis' sugar-sweet ballet painting, Pink Tights. Somehow the jury agreed that an almost unknown Californian named Boris Deutsch deserved the $2,500 first prize-for his ragged, muddy...