Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latin America, cultural and educational institutions on both sides of the Rio Grande have run a low fever of Pan-American good will. One result: an unprecedented exchange of Latin-American and U. S. art. Two months ago three Western Hemisphere cultural capitals-New Orleans, Guatemala City and San Salvador-started to do some handshaking on their own. The idea for this hands-across-the-Gulf was thought up by a New Orleans art patron, Doris Stone, whose father, big, angular Shipping Tycoon Samuel Zemurray, runs the ships of his United Fruit Co. to & from the ports of many...
...Stone, a director of New Orleans' Arts & Crafts Club, invited El Salvador and Guatemala to send their best art for an exhibition in New Orleans' Royal Street Gallery, put up a $50 prize for the best painting from each country. Most of the Salvadoran and Guatemalan art looked about as Latin as a Saturday Evening Post cover. Prizes went to Guatemalan Jaime Arimany (for a tropical mountain scene), and Salvadoran José Media Vides (for a bevy of dark-skinned bathers-see cut}. Critics were politely rhapsodic...
Last week New Orleans returned the call with an exhibition of Southern U. S. art at the cheerful new International Club Salon in palm-shaded San Salvador. At the show's formal opening, U. S. Minister Robert Frazer, International Railways of Central America Manager Herbert Wilson and a swarm of Cabinet Ministers and bank presidents elbowed some 500 of El Salvador's other leading citizens for a look. Curiously, the most striking items of Southern U. S. art in the show (example: The Red Mill by New Orleans Painter Caroline Wogan Durieux) looked more Latin than...
Salvadoran critics outdid the critics of New Orleans in politeness. Said Critic Salvador Salazar Arrue: "The exposition is of great transcendence to Salvadoran art. . . . The social importance these cultural manifestations exercise on life will be clearly seen...
South of Mexico is "the most powerful military establishment in Central America" (excluding Mexico): Guatemala's Army of 5,967, plus a tiny, French-trained Air Force. President Jorge Ubico has said he could put 70,000 men in the field in a pinch. Below Guatemala is El Salvador with a volunteer professional Army of 1,855, an eight-plane Air Force. Honduras has an Army of about 2,000, an Air Force of 19 planes, with an aviation school under...