Word: washburn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pittsburgh's Carnegie International is one of the three great biennial shows (with Venice's and Sao Paulo's) that survey and measure contemporary art from all over the world. For the 39th Carnegie, which opened last week, the museum's new director, Gordon Washburn, chose 305 paintings from 24 nations. They make a generally lively show, but one that belies...
Carnegie's traditional claim of being a cross section of current trends. For Director Washburn is a partisan of abstract art, and some 200 of his selections are more rather than less abstract...
...Washburn asserts, somewhat defiantly, that his favorite contemporary school is "the natural language of our century . . . Any other form of artistic communication must actually be contrary to the compulsions of the age itself, whose strong currents cannot be stayed." Swimming with the tide, the Carnegie jury gave all six prizes to more-or-less-abstract paintings...
Eisenhower's Working Staff: includes Arthur Vandenberg, executive assistant; James Hagerty, press secretary; Abbott Washburn, correspondence secretary...
...Washburn had thought of something else: half a dozen wheelchairs for the footsore. Said he: "I see no reason why a person who wants to spend a couple of hours or so shouldn't be comfortable...