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...three-man jury-Lloyd Goodrich of the Whitney Museum, Henri Dorra of the Corcoran, Alfred Frankfurter of Art News-made a refreshingly sober choice for prizes. Top honor and $2,000 went to Edward Hopper for a calm, direct and powerful water color done at Pacific Palisades, Calif. Charles Sheeler took second prize and $1,000 with an architectural construction called Two Against the White, also inspired by a trip to California. The international flavor of the competition was served when England's John Piper took third prize and $750 for an impressionistic backyard-scape called Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. Honorable...
Among the 143 paintings and 43 sculptures, there were some works, of course, by a handful of men who stand above fashion. Charles Sheeler's California showed a moonlit village so radiant and calm as to bring Bethlehem to mind. Mark Tobey's Pacific Circle was as boldly abstract as anything on view, yet as subtle as it was bold; it pictured the elements mingling in a gentle storm...
...together in a few years. The viewers saw a handsome survey of 57 paintings and six sculptures covering 180 years of U.S. art, from a serene John Singleton Copley portrait, Mrs. Roger Morris, finished in 1772, to first modern works by Watercolorists Charles Burchfield and John Marin, Painters Charles Sheeler, Edward Hopper and Morris Graves...
...just squeaked by." During World War II he rose to the Navy rank of lieutenant commander, took part in the Normandy invasion. After the war he learned museum work under the G.I. bill, has since organized major traveling shows of Orozco, John Marin, Jack Levine, Hyman Bloom, Charles Sheeler Morris Graves (and written monographs on them...
...spry, wry, spindly man who is at once gentle and unyielding, diffident and daring, Sheeler is a splendid paradox in American art. Neither realists nor abstractionists can claim him, for he merges their domains. More successfully, perhaps, than any other painter, he provides a steady look through highly polished spectacles at the works of modern...