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...five rooms and hallway that constitute the Museum of Modern Art in the Heckscher Building, Manhattan, last week hung the best collection of modern painting yet seen there-woodcuts and paintings by Gauguin, several vivid Cezannes, a Seurat seascape, a colorful Degas, splendid examples of Frenchmen Monet, Renoir, Redon, Daumier, Picasso, Matisse, Guys and of U. S. Artists Davies, Charles and Maurice Prendergast, Dougherty, Kuhn. More newsworthy than the exhibition's quality, however, was the fact that these paintings were now the Museum's property. Before the public was invited to look, a memorial service was held...
...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...
...TIME, July 9, 1928); Norman Bel Geddes, jack-of-all-design; William Cropper, arch-rebel draughtsman; Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; Editor Frank Crowninshield (Vanity Fair); Director Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. On the walls were hung 98 canvases by the four "old masters" of modern painting: Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh. Many a guest at the opening could well remember the time when these men were not even subjects for polite conversation. There had been unwholesome tales of Gauguin, the stockbroker who deserted wife and child for the allures of Tahiti; Cezanne, the vitriolic rebel...
...landscapes of Camille Pissarro, French impressionist, scarcely paid for their own paint. When he died in 1903, he left a studio cluttered with his own work and that of his friends (Mary Cassatt, Monet, Manet, Seurat, Cezanne). Until last week these were kept as mementos by the Pissarro family. Then they sold them at auction in Paris. The total return was about...
...prints and drawings. It is even more astonishing that the great founders of the contemporary tradition--men who have been dead twenty years are equally neglected. It is actually impossible for an amateur to study in any of these great galleries, a single painting by Cazanne, Van Gogh, Seurat, Gauguin, masters who are honored the world over--in London, Paris, Berlin, in Italy, Russia, Scandinavia, in the Low Countries, in Chicago and New York and Cleveland--but not in Boston. One must actually travel to Worcester to see paintings by Gauguin and Redon. In Boston, the development of 19th Century...