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...First on my list is R.A. d'Hulst's four volume edition of Jordaen's Drawings. My second Christmas book is Archibald MacLeish's The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn printed by Harvard Press. Also, Nicholson and Troutman's Letters of Virginia Woolf--I expect to find them under my tree Christmas morning...
...painted such social-realist subjects as "unemployed Negroes, crippled war veterans and the ubiquitous workers with open blue workshirts and necks wider than their heads." Hughes says, "In fact, he never painted such pictures. Either Wolfe is making them up or he cannot distinguish between Franz Kline and Ben Shahn...
...survey course your man Hughes took included only one line about Kline (probably "Franz Kline -20th-cent. Am. abstract expressionist"). It's no doubt news to Hughes, but Kline went through a period of realism, including social realism. This is a painting by Franz Kline (not Ben Shahn) called Ex-Servicemen and the Unemployed (1941). As your man says, "One example will do for all." I'm afraid that leaves us with just one elementary howler: the one named Robert Hughes...
...abstract painter, was dutifully cranking out paintings of unemployed Negroes, crippled war veterans and the ubiquitous workers with open blue workshirts and necks wider than their heads." In fact, he never painted such pictures. Either Wolfe is making them up, or he cannot distinguish between Franz Kline and Ben Shahn...
...YEARS since Ben Shahn's widow donated 2000 of her late husband's photographs to the Fogg Art Museum, photography at the Fogg has risen from the status of stepchild to full fledged member of the illustrious family of "fine arts." Even now, one of the Fogg's best-kept secrets is its small but distinguished collection of 20th-century photographs, and rarely is a photography show celebrated with a black-tie opening or an expensive catalogue as was the current Ben Franklin exhibit. Despite the museum's limited budget and space, Contemporary Photographs V is the fifth...