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Polite rivalry exists between the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in Manhattan. Two months ago the Museum of Modern Art called the attention of Manhattan esthetes to an almost forgotten genre painter named George Caleb Bingham, who was Missouri's favorite 70 years ago. Last week the Whitney Museum went its rival one better by filling three floors with other genre paintings by Bingham, his predecessors, contemporaries and followers in one of the most interesting exhibitions of the year, entitled "The Social Scene in Paintings & Prints from...
Genre painting means a style or subject matter dealing realistically with scenes of everyday life. That was all the 171 exhibits in the Whitney Museum had in common. Emotionally pictures varied from the sentimental Girl and Pets, by the mid-Victorian Eastman Johnson, to a blunt garish study of U. S. sailors tousling trollops on a park bench, painted in 1933 by Paul Cadmus (TIME, April 30; May 28). The New York American's venerable Critic Malcolm Vaughan was so pleased by all he saw that he wrote...
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916), a great U. S. artist even today, was represented by six canvases in the Whitney show. Best of the lot was his picture of the Biglen brothers, famed oarsmen of the 1870's, pulling their double shell around a mark in a race. Eakins' particular passion was having his models pose in exactly the same attitude from day to day. He used to make them stand against a background marked out with squared lines with colored ribbons attached at the exact point where head, elbow, knee, etc. were supposed to be. Prizefights were...
...Jock") Whitney who has been trying to win the Grand National since 1929. Whitney's Thomond II, at odds of 9-to-2, was one of last week's favorites...
...Aintree, two horses came to the last fence together, Thomond II got over first but faltered as he landed. Reynoldstown cleared neatly. In that moment, the result of the Grand National was decided. The Whitney horse, a flat racer trained to jump but lacking the stamina of a born steeplechaser, slowed down so badly that Lady Lindsay's Blue Prince, at 40-to-1. passed him in the stretch and took second place by three lengths...