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Donor Norton is pretty well satisfied with the 145 paintings he gave the museum: he and his wife spent 20 years collecting them. Sixty are by contemporary U.S. artists-Robert Brackman, Eugene Speicher, Leon Kroll, Maurice Sterne, Robert Philipp, Jerry Farnsworth. Earlier U.S. artists like Inness, Whistler, Frederick Waugh, Elliott Daingerfield, are represented. English portraitists, a few illustrative old and French Impressionist masters help round out the collection...
Living artists (whose work comprised one-third of that shown) were mostly allowed to send in what they liked. Since most of the contemporary pictures were for sale ($400 to $12,000), many an artist submitted canvases-like Eugene Speicher's "Red" Moore, Blacksmith-which had kicked around unsold. But there were good new pictures, notably Reginald Marsh's swirling skating scene, Prometheus in Rockefeller Center...
...Hills, Mich. put on an art show. LIFE and Cranbrook invited a gilt-edged jury of U. S. critics to choose 60 leading contemporary U. S. artists, then to pick one picture by each of the 60. Some of these canvases had been previously shown in public; all (like Speicher's Alicia, see cut) were typical of the artist's best work, thus represented the fresh cream of U. S. painting...
...Gerald L. Brockhurst (Great Britain), Hipolito Hidalgo de Caviedes (Spain), Edward Hopper and Eugene Speicher...
...earlier planned exhibit did not, American Art Today turned out to be the biggest show of its kind ever put on. From some 25,000 entries, judges chose 1,214 examples of painting, sculpture and the graphic arts. The roster of well-known names-Thomas Hart Benton, Eugene Speicher, Adolf Dehn, George Grosz, Edward Hopper, Charles Burchfield, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, William Zorach, Peggy Bacon, many another-is long, but incomplete. Some (Georgia O'Keefe, Jose de Creeít) did not submit anything. Some (Frederick Waugh, Robert Brackman) were turned down...