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...depression of the '30s brought Peirce home, and home apparently deepened his art. Abandoning Matisse, he found a more congenial master in Renoir, though he never approached Renoir's skill with a brush. A third of the paintings in last week's show were studies of Peirce's third and fourth wives and their five children, warmly and sometimes clumsily pictured in action. Today his kids chase Indians, blow trumpets and sail boats across the walls of a number of leading U.S. museums. Far from being great art, Peirce's paintings of his family glow...
...critics were less spontaneous: they wrote columns about "influences" they thought they saw in Grandma Moses' 50 oils (which owe their greatest debt to the prints of Currier & Ives). One critic spoke of Renoir and the "early moderns"; a second of Flemish miniatures and Bruegel's landscapes. Anyway, said another, "there's something [in Grandma Moses] for everyone to enjoy, whatever their approach...
...Foundation's Alfred M. Frankfurter, who holds that the best U.S. paintings since World War II have been of the "expressionist" school. For Frankfurter, expressionism is a broad enough term to include both Hyman Bloom, who paints moldering corpses with the same loving intensity that Renoir applied to living flesh, and Lee Gatch, whose delicately tinted abstractions look almost like misty landscapes...
Paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Gaugin, Manet, Matisse, Monet, Renoir, Picasso, Van Gogh, and Toulouse-Lautrec are included in the gift. Sculptures by Despiau and Maillol, and drawings by Guys, Matisse, Picasso, and Renoir also are listed in the bequest...
...large are characteristic of the artists represented." Wertheim bought the best possible examples for his collection, with an eye to leaving them to the Museum. In the later years of his collection, he thought of their future maximum teaching usefulness at Harvard, buying three paintings of Renoir, for instance, which illustrated his early, middle, and late periods...