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...Shahn's Freud
Your story on Freud (with another wonderful portrait by Ben Shahn) has probably done more to inform embarrassed non-Freudian cocktail conversationalists than 20 hours of college lectures could. Your text served mainly to point out one glaring id-ego-syncrasy in Freud's primary approach: if he had only asked the question "Why am I?" rather than "What am I?" his searching would have led eventually to the soul-triumphant symbol of the Cross rather than the sex-triumphant symbol of the couch...
...exhibit's most imaginative contributor. His pictures tend to be ghoulish or cartoonish. Charles Addams is a notable influence. The ink and wash study of a farmer looking at a hanging man struck this reviewer as one of his better works, in many ways reminiscent of Ben Shahn. The skating waiters are drawn with delicate line and much wit. Biddle's work can be characterized as naive and childish. This does not preclude some clever sketching. His main fault is sloppiness...
...four pictures in dispute: the Addison Gallery of American Art's Skaters by the late Yasuo Kuniyoshi; Cleveland Museum of Art's The Park, Winter, by Leon Kroll, 71; Manhattan Museum of Modern Art's Fishermen by William Zorach, 69; and National Pastime, by Ben Shahn...
Into the Market. With more money than ever before to buy art, even small museums are dipping into the market. The Springfield (Mo.) Art Museum recently picked up an Albrecht Dürer print, a Ben Shahn painting, Mother and Child, and a 10th century Persian bowl. The big, endowed museums are taking a back seat to no one, e.g., the St. Louis City Art Museum's purchase this month of a Frans Hals portrait for $150,000. Kansas City's collection, which goes back 4,000 years to a Sumerian statue, also goes forward to a recent...