Word: washburn
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...procession of top museum men put the Albright on its modern course. In 1939 Director Gordon Washburn, now head of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute, inaugurated a "Room of Contemporary Art," where moderns were hung experimentally, then either acquired permanently or resold. This system, widely copied by other museums, was carried on by Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, now head of Yale University Art Gallery, and current Albright Director Gordon M. Smith, 51, who switched the emphasis to U.S. abstract expressionists. The result of the Albright's venturesome buying is a modern collection that ranks in quality right behind such mammoth...
...Robert Jordan '58, of Eliot House and New York City; Thomas Lumbard '58, of Kirkland House and New York City; Phillip McCoy '59, of Eliot House and Kansas City, Kan.; Peter Salisbury '58, of Adams House and Dearborn, Mich.; William S. Talbot '59, of Kirkland House and Williamstown; John Washburn '59, of Lowell House and Tryon, N.C.; and Elisabeth Nelson '58, of Saville House and Saugus...
David B. Abernethy, Francis X. Gorman, Peter B. Gustafson, John A. Hamilton, Jr., John S. Hammond III, Philip P. Holtz, William T. Murray, Eugene F. Proctor, David R. Raty, Richard H. Seaton (captain), James D. Stanley 2d, John N. Trainer III, Stepphen L. Wailes, Edgar S. Walsh, Kenneth W. Washburn, Arthur A. Windecker III, Theodore P. Burgess III (manager). Minor 'H' in major colors to Paul Levin '57 (associate manager...
...Henry M. Brown, Asaph B. Churchill, John W. C. DeKiewiet, Nathan P. Dodge III, James J. Doty, David K. Gately, William V. Gillen, Albert F. Gordon (captain), Joel R. Landau, Carl A. Pescosolido Jr., David S. Rosenthal, James E. Schlaeppi, David C. Spinney, William T. Thompson III, Frederic B. Washburn, Richard L. Williams, Jr., William B. Dockser (manager...
Critic Eleanor Jewett. "The influence of Marca-Relli, Baziotes, De Kooning, Matta and Picasso ... is so obvious that it hurts." Pointing to this year's out-of-town jury (Manhattan's Painter Hedda Sterne and Sculptor Ibram Lassaw, Carnegie Institute's Fine Arts Director Gordon Bailey Washburn), Critic Jewett snorted, "Originality has been sacrificed in the jury's sustained effort to make this Midwest exhibition as like as possible to a New York modern show...