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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No Closed Shop. But in 1929, when the team of Whitney & Force tried to close up shop and retire, they found to their chagrin that modern U.S. art was still not well enough established for Manhattan's crusty Metropolitan Museum to accept Mrs. Whitney's collection, even as...
When the Whitney opened its salmon-pink quarters on West Eighth Street in 1931, Mrs. Force continued to focus her attention on present-day U.S. artists, letting the older established museums fill in the historical background. Mrs. Whitney paid all the bills, left $2,500,000 to keep the museum...
Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset had started something, it seemed, when he descibed the evolution of painting as a steady march from external reality through the subjective to the "intrasubjective" (TIME, Aug. 22). Last week, twelve U.S. modernists had picked up Ortega's word, opened an "intrasubjective...
In 1901 the 36-year-old Lautrec died, his delicate health overtaxed by Montmartre's fast-paced night life. Demanding the best in printing, colors and paper, he had gained little from his excursions into "commercial" art beyond the satisfaction of a job magnificently done. But by last week...
Two months ago, after spending 20 years trying to round up a complete collection, Art Dealer Gustave Michel finally located Lautrec's last and rarest poster, La Gitane, proceeded with plans for the Paris show. Later on, Michel hoped to send the show to the U.S., where few people...