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...this manifesto last week were fixed the names of eight greater and lesser U. S. artists: Alfred Stieglitz, Alexander Brook, William Gropper, John Marin, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, John Sloan. Ever since copyright laws have been in existence it has been possible for artists or owners of pictures to copyright them, prevent their reproduction without due authority. Explaining last week's manifesto, grey-haired Spokesman John Sloan, famed painter of New York street scenes, longtime president of the Society of Independent Artists, pointed out that what he and his distinguished friends and their recently engaged...
...Left-wing in politics. Ralph Steiner, 37, gained fame as a still photographer, currently earns his bread-&-butter doing color work for Ladies' Home Journal, has made several cinema shorts including H2O, Surf and Sea Weed, Pie in the Sky. Paul Strand, one-time protege of Alfred Stieglitz. did a film called Redes for the Mexican Government. Leo Hurwitz has excited Leftist audiences with shorts on the "Scottsboro Boys" and a Washington hunger march...
...shirker, Ringmaster's ringmaster wrote his own opening article under the pseudonym of "Guy McHerring.'' An extraordinary piece of prose called Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Stieglitz and Splendour, it seemed to be intended as political fantasy...
...often done in the past 27 years. Alfred Stieglitz, photographer and art dealer, last week gave over his bleak, hospital-like Manhattan gallery to the paintings of his best friend. A wrinkled, shock-headed little man of 65, John Marin looks like a disheveled version of the late Sir Henry Irving. Because a new book on Artist Marin has just been published,* because critics like Henry McBride, Lewis Mumford and Julius Meier-Graefe have put themselves on record as considering John Marin the greatest water-colorist in the U. S., it was an important exhibit...
Marin's name rhymes with barren. He likes to play down his ancestry (French-Dutch-Scotch-English), play up his U. S. birth and training. Twenty-seven years ago Stieglitz found Marin an art student in Paris, earning a skimpy living by meticulously etching French cathedrals in the Whistler manner. Rebelling at this finicky scratchwork, Marin would rush out to the country, splash gobs of water color around with one of the biggest brushes he could find. Dealer Stieglitz did not think much of the etchings, but grew so excited about the water colors that he practically adopted John...