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Burchfield's perseverance paid off in some of the most unusual nature painting in American art. In memory of the artist, who died in 1967, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, N.Y., is currently displaying a 441-work retrospective. Organized by Assistant to the Director Joseph Trovato, the show ranges from schoolboy sketches to some of his last large watercolors, handsomely illuminating Burchfield's special gifts. Sweeping views and majestic scenery were not his forte. Rather, he marveled at nature's moods, the songs of crickets and cicadas, the sound of the wind in the telegraph...
This week, in the same pine-bedecked Armory, more than 300 of the original 1,300 paintings and sculptures that made their formidable debut 50 years ago will be on view again. Joseph S. Trovato, assistant to the director of Utica's Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, got the idea of reassembling as much of the show as possible back in 1956. It was a big job. Though the original show was probably the most famous U.S. art exhibition of all time, the 1913 catalogue was a masterpiece of vagueness; the paintings and sculptures have been sold and resold, titles...
...would never send a telegram of this sort to the Secretary of State." Just as curious as the episode itself was the editorial applause given to the fraud by the New York Times. Wrote the Times: "The Italians have a saying, 'Se non e vero, e ben trovato,' which roughly translated means: 'Even if it wasn't true, it was a good idea...
Ever since Boccaccio or before, Italians have had a saying: "Se non é vero, é bene trovato-It may not be true, but it's a good story." Last week, according to the A.P., Italians were telling this tale...
...This thing is Ben trovato...