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...Abraham Walkowitz, the world's most prolific portrait sitter, held an unusual one-man show last week-130 portraits of himself by 109 U.S. artists. (The show's official title, One Hundred Artists and Walkowitz, was a modest understatement...
...walls of one of the main galleries of the Brooklyn Museum were all but concealed by Walkowitz in oil, watercolors, pen & ink, photography, stone and clay. There was Walkowitz in practically every artistic style known to history, Walkowitz by such top-flight U.S. artists ,and sculptors as Wayman Adams, Alexander Brook, Guy Pene Du Bois, Gifford Beal, Ernest Fiene, William Gropper, Joe Jones...
Morris Kantor, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Waldo Peirce, Raphael Soyer, Max Weber, William Zorach. There was even Walkowitz as Cyclops (by Adolph Gottlieb), a large green-and-ocher canvas in which Walkowitz looked like a giant grasshopper brooding over the canals of Mars. And there was Walkowitz (by Frank Kleinholz), entering the gates of heaven, and meeting St. Peter, who had also taken up painting and was doing an angel...
...such famed Europeans as Christian Bérard, Mariette Lydis, Giorgio De Chirico, Andre Derain. Pablo Picasso, Georges Roualt, Léon Bakst; drawings made by Nijinsky in his Swiss sanatorium; masks from Africa and masks by W. T. Benda; sculpture by Rodin, sketches of Isadora Duncan by Abraham Walkowitz; photographs by top-flight Austrian, Swedish, French and U. S. photographers. The handsomely printed program announced for Dec. 12 an "Evening of Ballet" to include the three foremost U. S. companies, for Jan. 2 an "Evening of Modern Dance" contributed by Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, Doris Humphrey...
...20th show produced an impressive display of bad art, a few first-class pictures by successful Society old-timers and a few faintly promising works by unknowns. Notable was the scarcity of abstracts and revolutionary posters. On the principles laid down by the Society's vice president Abraham Walkowitz last week that "Every artist who hangs a picture here hangs only his conscience." the 20th show offered plenty of conscience hung, drawn and quartered...