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...Abraham Rattner's colorful, confusing Transcendence, in which Christ seems to have five or six wobbly overlapping heads, arranged like the pleats of an accordion...
...Guard as John Sloan, Alexander Brook, Charles Burchfield, Thomas Benton. They also found some of the most unacademic art now being done in the U.S. The Pennsylvania Academy itself shucked tradition by giving its coveted Temple Medal to an out-&-out esthetic experimentalist: 51-year-old Abraham Rattner, a Paris-trained New Yorker...
...Painter Rattner's prizewinner was Kiosk, a near-abstraction in greens, yellows and a touch of purple. A Philadelphia reporter, struggling to find the metropolitan newsdealer peering from his booth window, framed by magazines and newspapers, called Kiosk a "what-is-it." Sniffed the New York Times's assured Edward Alden Jewell: "unqualifiedly the poorest thing by Abraham Rattner that I have ever seen...
Expressionists, Abstractionists. The work of Kootz's own modern favorites is derived from the "expressionists [who] use the psychology of color ... to express a moody, mystic Weltschmerz." He singles out Abraham Rattner, Walter Quirt, Paul Burlin. Of Rattner (see cut), he remarks...
...Walker Galleries showed affectionately executed portraits by Durr Freedley, a quiet semiprofessional in the precise New England line, who died last year at Lexington, Mass. Most spirited post-Picasso lyricism of the season appeared at the Julien Levy Gallery in canvases by softspoken, curly-locked Abraham Rattner, who has lived in Paris since the War. A new C. I. O. sculptors' union exhibited honest work, good & bad, at the New School for Social Research. But best bets for seekers of reposeful pleasure were two showings by older U. S. artists whose work kept pace with their reputations...