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...raised in upstate New York and studied business at the University of Michigan ('31), working part time as a dishwasher to pay expenses. His father once told him to "get a big job with a big company and take things easy." Aided by a friend named H. Whitney Clapsaddle who was employed by G.M., Gerstenberg found a job in 1932 as a timekeeper at the company's Frigidaire division in Dayton. Ever since, he has followed the first two parts of his father's advice to a tee-and totally disregarded the third. A devout believer...
...artifacts, which. like deposits on the verge of a shrinking lake, mark the point from which cultures drained away. A magnificent collection of these relics, selected from the so-called "historical period" of North American Indian culture (17th to 19th centuries), is now on view at Manhattan's Whitney Museum...
...20th century painting was fundamental. Max Ernst collected kachina dolls, and Jackson Pollock, it is said, was interested in Navajo sand paintings; but as a rule, whether it was treated as knickknacks or, more decently, as ethnographical evidence, Indian art has languished on the fringes of white perception. The Whitney, by inviting its guest curator Norman Feder (who is in charge of the Indian collection at the Denver Art Museum) to assemble some 300 works and present them as art. has done an exemplary public service. The items in the show have been chosen with meticulous connoisseurship. Their installation...
...develop a more concise epigram of a grizzly bear's humped, sullen power than the unknown Tlingit carver who hewed one (see cut below) full-face, with shell teeth, on a house wall in Sitka? In the same way, there are painted buckskin coats and drums in the Whitney whose spontaneous, eccentric beauty of drawing is little short of breathtaking, while the bizarre and untrammeled inventiveness of some Eskimo masks would have been the envy of Miro or Picasso...
...known and not-so-well-known contributors. Insurance Millionaire W. Clement Stone, Chicago's-and perhaps the country's-foremost political philanthropist, has said that he gave Nixon more than $500,000 for his preconvention and election campaign. Others who contributed more than generously included John Hay Whitney, Colorado Oilman John M. King, and John Olin of the Illinois chemical family...