Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newport, Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's exhibition of 15 pieces of sculpture, ranging from small bronzes to a huge plaster Rock Group turned out to be more popular than a show by 20 contemporary painters which opened at the same time. Aside from a group of abstract studies that local critics defended somewhat uneasily, paintings at the Newport Art Association exhibit included the veteran Edward Hopper's oil Sun on Prospect Street, Charles Burchfield's water color Black Iron, the work of John Marin, Thomas Benton, Reginald Marsh, Henry Yarnum Poor, others as eminent...
...Silvermine Guild of Artists, a 16-year-old organization whose 310 members include Columnist Westbrook Pegler as well as John Steuart Curry, Novelist Ursula Parrott as well as Artist John Vassos. Most important exhibition this year at the Silvermine Gallery were 21 murals of a social statement show, which is now on tour, most of them explosive, crowded canvases of somewhat labored satire, like James Daugherty's It's Fun to Be Neutral, or solemn, like Howard Hildebrandt's Construction of the Merritt Parkway. Happier and more decorative were John Vassos' God Bless Our Home...
...Rockport, Mass., where most artists have studios on Bearskin Neck-and the local art association has been embroiled year after year with city fathers over the annual artists ball - the 18th annual show was lively, colorful, included work by Jon Corbino, Leon Kroll, Harrison Cady, better known for his illustrations for Peter Rabbit stories...
...Gloucester, Mass., where for 60 years artists have been painting in remodeled fish houses on Rock Neck Avenue, two rival groups sponsored exhibitions, the Society of Artists holding a spirited, uneven, no-jury show on the second floor of a store building, featuring cheerful pieces by young, rebellious Lawrence Beall Smith and Umberto Romano; the North Shore Art Association, twice as big, and more than twice as dignified, giving its 16th annual show in which Gloucester scenes, fishermen and sailing craft predominated...
...Zone (see pp. 36, 50) last week had every managing editor poised for a beat on his local rivals. Day of the fliers' return to the U. S., "Cissie" Patterson's sprightly Washington Times appeared on the streets with a four-column, front-page picture purporting to show the plane on the landing field in Minneapolis. Same day, in its final edition, the Times crowed that it had beaten its competitors to the street by 27 minutes with the story of Hughes's landing in New York...