Word: seurat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...west as California, and in towns as small as Springville, Utah, are associations showing modernist art. The attendance at the opening of the Museum of Modern Art show of Gauguin, Cezanne, Van Gogh and Seurat, was 47,000. Neither art lovers nor the curious visit displays of academic art in such crowds. Cynics say that even the National Academy of Design, the very last and as yet uncaptured citadel of conservatism, had to hang a picture sidewise and then publicize the fact that a somewhat modernistic picture had been so hung by mistake (TIME, Nov. 18), to get people...