Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long been observed that Americans approach objects in art galleries much as a mortician approaches a cadaver. They take their hats off. They elevate their noses. They tiptoe. While this procedure is undoubtedly appropriate when the exhibit is very bad, John Sloan, at the Independents' exhibition in Manhattan (TIME, Mar. 24), urged the public to keep their hats on. Now comes Homer St. Gaudens (TIME, May 12), son of Augustus. Said he to newspapermen at the dedication of a new art museum in Houston: "Reassure your public that putting on felt slippers to draw near a picture is unnecessary...
...introduced who were not shown in previous annals. This is due to the able leadership of Homer St. Gaudens (son of the famed sculptor), who has been Art Director of the Carnegie Institute for the past three years. Among the American paintings are works of Kenneth Hayes Miller, John Sloan, Henry Lee McFee, Mahonri Young, Eugene Speicher, William Glackens, Maurice Sterne, Robert Henri, George Bellows...
...marked drops. In Wall Street the talk is mostly of overproduction, inflation by sales on part-payment, diminishing margin of profit, increased and bitter competition and similar gloomy matters. On the other hand, the trade in its announcements and its advertising fails to share this melancholy tone. Alfred P. Sloan, Vice President of General Motors, declared sales of his cars to dealers this Spring would be 20% greater than last year, while stocks of cars on hand with the Company amounted to about ten days' current production...
...Sloan's statement of course applies to a single company, generally recognized to be in good condition, and it does not deal with a future further away than this Spring. But by the beginning of Summer, it will be possible to determine whose predicitions are best-those of the stock market or those of automobile companies...
...particularly struck by George Bellow's large canvas of two pugilists, a black and a white, in a particularly intense moment of action. There is Robert Henri's sombre portrait of Miss Battalo Rubino. There are also works by John Sloan, President of the Society, Arthur Lee, winner of the Pennsylvania Academy gold medal, Al Frueh, cartoonist of The New York World, William Glackens, Allen Tucker, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. These represent the established artists who set the character of the show...